IS IT THUNDER—OR FOOTSTEPS? Ships are disappearing—the ocean boils and churns—seismograph measurements are jumping off the scale. A mysterious wave of destruction is making its way, step by step, from a remote Pacific atoll to the tiny concrete island known as Manhattan! As the towering terror methodically dismantles the Big Apple, skyscraper by skyscraper, nuclear scientist Nick Tatopolous is called in to do what the combined forces of the U.S. Army and Air Force can’t—Stop GODZILLA! The authorized GODZILLA novelization!All the thrills of the NEW spectacular film from the creators of the smash hit Independence Day.

FIRST CONTACT—AND COVER-UP! The #1 blockbuster movie Independence Day was only part of the story. After the alien invaders are downed and teams are sent out to find survivors, only some personal belongings of Dr. Brackish Okun, head scientist of Area 51, are found. Okun's story is amazing, yet completely believable. It begins in the 1970s when this CalTech genius arrives at Area 51 to work with I the National Security Agency (NSA) and the CIA on the study of a downed spaceship retrieved from Roswell, New Mexico. But there is much more to the job than Okun realized. Soon, he begins to suspect that a massive government cover-up has successfully buried all evidence of alien visitation throughout the years—a cover-up in which Okun is now an unwilling participant. His perseverance leads him to the truth behind the studies at Area 51, the government's fear of an alien invasion, and a mysterious encounter in the Mexican desert at a place known as "La Manta de Silencia": The Silent Zone.