"...As though three horses rode in unison over a once barren desert, the brightly-lit submersibles cast bizarre shadows against the roughly buckled and crimped bulkheads of an extraterrestrial vessel--a ship that had at once invaded and surrendered to this unwelcome environment." From the thriller, OMAR: A Novel, by Craig O. Thompson

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OMAR: A Novel By Craig O. Thompson Historical Fiction | Suspense | Action-Adventure StrataGem Press | August 2001 Hardcover | $24.95 | 0-9675207-0-3 Softcover | $14.95 | 0-9675207-1-1
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