Young adult, with spicy thriller elements.

The idea: Three teenagers stumble upon an alien spaceship. When the infamous Roswell incident in 1947 (he was an inspiration and starting point for numerous science fiction stories) is actually a UFO crashed and was brought to safety by the US government for Area 51. At that time, (unrecognized by the Earth's inhabitants) occurred in the universe a struggle and there are two spaceships crashed, this second find our heroes and keep this discovery for themselves. The novel deals with, among other things, the impact that can have highly developed techniques to the political and economic relations in the world. The impact of alien technologies on the people who explore these. The opportunities arising from the Internet today and what could be done with future technologies. Of course, even intelligence interested in it and here recall some passages of scenes from The X-Files Although the basic idea is not entirely new, the author manages to introduce new topical issues.

The protagonists are in addition to the right sympathetic young people, some pretty disturbed psychopaths and other not so clear to classify people, all characterizations are well integrated and understand, as far as the secondary characters.
The novel begins as a harmless classic young adult SF-history, as one of the most popular in North America apparently high school stories, but not overtightened so silly as playing movies in this area. Be told the experiences of a brother and sister and their friend from changing perspectives. The boy and the two girls (young people) act largely logical and comprehensible also according to their age. Time begins the SF novel in our presence, through this field of technology and physics so you need to worry.
The first novel begins quite slowly, he is gaining momentum, as well as complexity and later contains some pretty brutal, shocking elements. A real highlight is the cliffhanger in the short final chapters.

Despite the frequently changing perspective, you will find a quick access to the figures.
The declarations of the fictional scientific, physical background should classic SF fans a lot of joy and made me a relatively thoughtful impression.
Several topics were touched on only briefly and some complications are then but a little too predictable or constructed (the points but I can not reveal without Spoilergefahr), but these are just a few disturbing points and I'm curious how the story in the following novels further developed.
The language in this English novel is to cope well with moderate English skills.
This prelude novel reaches for me good 4 stars also because of its good dose of British humor, the successor is already on the Kindle.