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Emergence

An Apocalyptic Alien Invasion (Command & Control, Book 1)

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Emergence

By: JK Franks
Narrated by: Steven Varnum
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The Truth Was Always There

Deep in the icy black of the North Atlantic, a state-of-the-art submersible makes a chilling discovery—a metallic object slicing through the water with impossible speed and precision. Moments later, systems fail, lights die, and terror takes hold. On Mars, a European rover transmits the image of a stone—etched with unknown symbols—just before vanishing from the data grid. Entire neighborhoods in Nevada disappear without a trace. And in the French Alps, a champion cyclist vanishes mid-race, his GPS pinging him thousands of miles away—then gone.

Across the globe, scattered anomalies start to form a deadly pattern. Astrophysicist Dr. Kaden Trembley has spent his career chasing patterns like these, ridiculed for suggesting intelligent life might already be watching us. But now, something has shifted. They're not just watching anymore.

As covert black-ops teams scramble to bury the truth and governments twist themselves into knots to avoid panic, whispers of alien contacts rise to a fever pitch. With global infrastructures flickering, and trust in authority crumbling, Kaden and his new allies must untangle a trail of evidence stretching from deep space to the halls of power in Washington—before the next phase begins.

From a secretive prepper enclave in the Ozarks to the heart of the Oval Office, Emergence is a brutal, unrelenting sci-fi thriller that rips the lid off the greatest conspiracy of all time. What if aliens weren’t coming… because they never left?

Humanity’s reckoning has arrived—and survival might depend on who is best prepared for the truth.

©2025 JK Franks Media, LLC (P)2025 JK Franks Media, LLC
First Contact Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense Alps Fiction

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Why does the narrator whisper, and then shout the characters voices? It's either get blasted at when the characters speak so you can hear the narration, or turn the voices down to a bearable level and strain to listen to the rest. There is no need. Does no one proof listen to these recordings? Painful. Have to skip the exciting bits because the shouting is unbearable. Not worth the credit overall.

Patchy. Skipped a few chapters and didn't seem to miss anything.

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Good effort in trying to bring together huge areas of topics, potential for aliens and how they get here, government conspiracy and the history of it, the bad versus the good, the preppers, the military and the civilians. Definitely worth a listen, characters engaging just that the width and breadth of the story so large you can forget what some of the characters have been doing by the time the story gets back to them and the types of aliens and what they are all up to gets confusing. The narrator keeps it all going.

Good narration, descriptive, brings together the imaginary, the possible and the conspiratorial.

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Takes a while to get going but worth sticking with. I look forward to the rest of the series.

Great Sci Fi UFO Romp

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Great modern sci-fi story, very well read. Can’t wait for the next book in the series.

A must listen.

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Some good characters and story ideas but seems unedited with some rambling. Performed with huge variations of loudness making the finger hover over the volume control.

Some good ideas but not executed well

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