{"product_id":"the-visitors","title":"The Visitors","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn enormous, mysterious box descends upon smalltown Minnesota, spelling trouble for the world, in this classic adventure from a Science Fiction Grand Master.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Forestry student Jerry Conklin is fly-fishing when something huge lands on his car, crushing it into the earth. It looks like a big black box--about fifty feet high and two hundred feet long--and the object stirs up quite a commotion among the townspeople of Lone Pine, Minnesota. One of them even shoots at it--and quickly pays for it with his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Around the country, people scramble to determine what exactly the box is. Is it a machine? Or maybe a sentient being? What does it want? They have no way of knowing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jerry, meanwhile, has firsthand knowledge after the visitor abducts him. Then, just as he discovers it is a living, intelligent creature, it releases him into the darkness of night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Jerry searches for a way back to civilization, more visitors descend upon Earth. They seem harmless enough. Then they begin eating trees, and that's only the beginning . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Visitors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"One of the most engaging novels of alien invasion ever written.\" --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media Science \u0026 Fantasy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53020670755136,"sku":"9781504079839","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/8912\/3648\/files\/imageloader_ab58b65c-623d-4f56-ab3e-311bcaf3795e.jpg?v=1786631931","url":"https:\/\/silverstreetbooks.com\/products\/the-visitors","provider":"silverstreetbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}