Alan Wing

Invasion America!: a Novel Alan Wing

Nicholson turned up the volume so he could hear the reporter, "Early figures
indicate more than four thousand seven hundred have already been confirmed dead
from yesterday's attacks. That estimate includes a little over forty-one hundred that
were on the planes and close to five hundred others on the ground when the planes
were brought down. Those figures do not include unknown thousands that have sustained
life-altering injuries or the countless others still missing and presumed dead.
"Government officials have been very tight lipped concerning where they believe
the terrorists may have appropriated the more than fifty missiles they used to target the
nearly three-dozen passenger aircraft. Our military advisors have stated emphatically
the weapons are Stinger missiles and are equally convinced they must be part of the
allotment the United States gave to Afghan freedom-fighters during their war with the
Soviets back in the eighties. How they managed to smuggle those weapons onto the US
mainland is still a mystery. What is most frightening is what if they have more? And
what else do the terrorists have in store for us?"