The Lizard War

by John Dalmas

One thousand years after World War III, a group of lizards attempts to take over what remains of Earth, a seemingly easy task considering the primitive levels of technology of the remaining humans.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671698516
• ISBN13: 9780671698515
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

The war that lasted two chapters

I won't narrate you the story since it has already been done in another review. This book is about the journey that some members of a brotherhood make to get to their enemies. The actual fight between the protagonists will take 15 minutes of your reading time. I laughed out loud at some of the conversations that the leader of the aliens had with the main hero of the story, Luis. How to explain love to an alien sado-hedonist? World war 3 is called the Shuffling and 1000 years after the fact, humanity is in the middle ages again. This is the main context of what you will be reading and M. Dalmas, uses his usual skills at writing good military type stories.

A Mission Against an Alien Intrusion

The Lizard War is the first novel in the Monitor Service series. It concerns an intrusion of a group of sado-hedonist offworld aliens, the Lizards, into an alternative history of the Earth. World War III occurred in 1983 and billions of people died in the holocaust of nuclear and biological weapons, of starvation from the subsequent famine, and from the fighting between survivors over the remaining resources. Then came the event called the Shuffling or Forgetting, wherein the Earth was restored to a pristine condition, but the surviving people were scattered throughout the planet with blurred memories as individuals or small groups not much larger than the population of villages.The resulting society had few atheists, for everybody felt the hand of some god in the Shuffling. One of changes involved the relocating of the Pope to New Orleans, later renamed New Rome. Other changes occurred within the Church, including a renewed emphasis on loving God and his fellow men, leading to the formation of an Order of Saint Higuchi charged with keeping the peace among all men. The Higuchian masters and brothers were trained in the martial arts, covert investigation techniques, and military strategy and tactics.In this novel, generations later, Luis Raoul DenUyl, of mixed Spanish and Flemish ancestry, is a Higuchian brother on a mission. He is traveling alone, with very little in the way of a briefing. In Galway Town in Connemara, Luis meets Jamila Smith and Paddy Glynn and joins forces with them after a fight with local soldiers. Later, Luis learns that Jamila is a member of the Order of Saint Higuchi, having been admitted as an experiment after she was raised as an orphan by the brothers and then demonstrated extraordinary talents.The threesome find themselves being hunted by Lizards, but turn the tables and ambush one of the aliens and take his energy gun. After a night raid on their camp by Lizard dupes, Luis evades the attackers, but looses contact with Jamila and Paddy. Moreover, he is injured in the attack and the wound becomes infected. He is found unconscious with a high fever by Tom, who nurses him back to health and accompanies him toward his destination. Tom knows that Luis is a Higuchian brother, but Luis slowly learns that Tom is something entirely different.Along the way, Tom and Luis meet Lemmi Tsinnajinni, another Higuchian brother of Navajo ancestry, but travel on separately. In North Allegheny, they find Paddy and Jamila in the army of the local Duke. Traveling on together through York, the Commonwealth of the Lakes and Adirondack, they finally arrive at the rendezvous with other brothers assigned to the mission and their Buddhist monk allies. In this story, the Monitor Service is a branch of the Cultural Oversight Bureau, which is an agency of the Commonwealth of Homid Worlds. The Monitor Service is covertly protecting the Earth as a primitive world in the galactic community. Since the Lizards are inciting the Saint Lawren

Rebuilding after World War III

"The Lizard War" (ISBN 0-671-69851-6) by John Dalmas, author of the Regiment series, has written another book that is exciting to read, in this story he has combined two plot lines together for a possible future path of the people of Earth. Earth had expanded to the stars, when a Third World War occurred resulting in the loss of contact with other worlds. Time and covert assistance by agents of our Star spanning civilization has restored the Earth to the level of the Middle Ages. The church is again the center of knowledge and has included how the world was before the war as part of the Bible. Luis Raoul DenUyl is the young man, selected by his Church Order to on go a mission with little information about a growing problem in a distant part of America. Luis' journey has several surprises that many readers will enjoy reading.

The war between the evil and good

This story is about a war between the humans and the evil lizards from outer space during after the WW3. The main characters, Luis, Jamila, Tom, and Lemmi are in charge to defeat the lizards with help from many other warriors This book is one of the best books i've read.