Life on Earth In Stephen Coonts's Savage Planet , one year after engineering student Rip Cantrell discovered the first flying saucer buried deep in the sands of the Sahara, another saucer is brought up from the bottom of the Atlantic. The recovery is funded by a pharmaceutical executive who believes that the saucer holds the key to an antiaging drug formula-one that could allow space travelers to voyage between galaxies. Adam Solo, an alien marooned...