Sandworld Author:Richard A. Lupoff Red O'Reilly, the hero, is among three prisoners being transported by car with a guard and a social worker on a rainy night in contemporary California. Suddenly the car is off the road and in the middle of a jungle-which disappears as the rain ceases, leaving them stranded in a trackless desert. — After a trek across the desert, they find a city ... more »of alien vampires and must battle for survival.« less