Saucer: Savage Planet

Saucer, Book 3

By: Stephen Coonts

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

Aliens are coming!

A year after young engineering student Rip Cantrell discovered the first flying saucer buried deep in the sands of the Sahara, another saucer is brought up from the bottom of the Atlantic. The recovery is funded by a pharmaceutical executive who believes that the saucer holds the key to an anti-aging drug formula that space travelers would need to voyage between galaxies. But one of his technicians, Adam Solo, an alien marooned on Earth for a thousand years, steals the saucer, hoping to summon a starship to rescue him. Unfortunately, the stolen saucer has damaged communications gear.

Solo goes to Rip Cantrell and his partner, ex-Air Force test pilot Charlotte “Charley” Pine, and Rip's uncle Egg, for help in summoning a starship. Meanwhile, as a terrified world fearful of space invaders approaches meltdown, big pharma moguls and their thugs are hot on the trail of the foursome.

In a world turned upside down, it may be the arriving aliens who offer limitless possibilities. Rip and Charley face an incredible decision: Do they dare leave the safety of earth to travel into the great wilderness of the universe? Full of UFO’s, futuristic technology, edge-of-your-seat flying scenes and unforgettable characters, human and otherwise, Stephen Coonts' Savage Planet is classic storytelling at its best…and pure, unadulterated fun.

©2014 Stephen P. Coonts; 2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

First 2 were great

Well I did like the story. liked charters. This saying words & letters left is crazy.


The narrator was a very good speaker. He was not to good as changing the voices, but got in to it.
I really love these kind of books. Really liked the Author, in all was good.

Stephen Coonts is a natural storyteller

Stephen Koontz is a natural storyteller, he spins a yarn like he's dreaming a dream. Rip and Charlie are great partners in this dynamic adventure and Uncle Egg makes sure to bring common sense to an uncommon world. If you read the previous two books you will enjoy this one. If not you've got some catch-up to do. Get on with it "saucer" is your starting place.

Needed a different narrator.

Typically a book is only as good as the narrator. In this case the book deserved better. Dick Hill wasn't up to the task on this one and comes off sounding like Jimmy Durante narrating Frosty the Snowman (no offense Jimmy. You were great at what you did!)
It's a very hard book to keep listening to because of the terrible narrating. However, the book itself is very well written and a great addition to the Saucer series. Hopefully it will be re-released with a better reader soon because this version doesn't do the book justice. Terrible performance!

Great stories

Can't wait to read the next one...hopefully Stephen Coonts pens it! Want to read the next adventure of Rick & Charlie.

Great series

I loved all three booked. The first one I read twice. the other two ony audio books.

love the series

The saucer series is fairly basic story telling but it's good, fun adventure stuff. I guess this is the third and final book and takes the story to a final destination, another world which we don't visit in this book but would be interesting Mr. Coonts ... Just sayin'.

Savage Planet just about sums it up

What made the experience of listening to Saucer: Savage Planet the most enjoyable?

It was the final in the series, and tied up loose ends.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Dick Hill?

I enjoyed the first book narrated by Dick Hill. His character voices were well done and his narration was great. In this audiobook his character voices were okay, but his narration voice seemed a little shakey, and could here an odd accent in his tone.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Alien Resident

Any additional comments?

All in all I would have to say it was a fitting end to the series. Not much interested in the romantic aspect. I kind of figured what the two main characters were going to do in the end.

I miss performer Eric Conger.

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The performer and/or producer of this third installment has diverged so far from the tone of the second volume that the characters are unrecognizable.

How could the performance have been better?

Mr. Hill reads this installment as if we've been dropped into the mob culture of the roaring twenties. Our heroine, an accomplished pilot and confident woman, has been transformed into a sheepish maul. Our hero, a punk. Everyone else a mobster or thug.

great story

I enjoyed all three books in the series. it would be nice to of had a little more of Rips and Charlie's adventure in space.

Coonts has done it again!!

Mr. Coonts has proven again he can write about any subject. Such a master and a great man.