** "Event" by David Golemon starts with flying saucer sighting 10 July 1947 Roswell USA, repeats crashes present-day Arizona, details 2 days disaster 7-9 July alien attack, finishes month with epilogue chapters. More horror than thriller. Reminds me of 'Ancestor'. Gruesome gore. 'Destroyers' are big, bad, fast, bulletproof armored, leap on helicopters, swim through ground, and rip scores of people and large mammals apart with razor-sharp teeth and claws.
Every red-blooded comic-pulp afficiando knows that a brave American special-forces soldier Jack, who speaks for and to The President, will save cute boy Billy, the lad's best pal old coot prospector and single mom hardworking server of beer and burgers (circa 2000, owner too). Of course the cast includes a busty (now also brainy) blonde, God-preserved fool drunk, unstoppable ex-marine, silver-maned Senator, and crazy long-hair Injun. Featured Guest: small yet significant, sad-eyed little green alien. I flipped pages to find the requisite undeserving sacrifice and save-the-planet solution. The extraneous mother-son fiend conflict may be Oedipal or Freudian, is definitely unnecessary. There is a setup for a sequel; I will not be there.
[Spoilers: Baited with cattle, the alkaline flats' dust weakens beast armor, so a bomb zaps them all at the valley's only narrow exit. The blonde bites it (gets bit, big time); surprisingly her boyfriend survives. The villain escapes with monstrosity eggs. Trouble will be back.]