The Strange Encounter

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foreigntitle=L'Étrange Rendez-Vous


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date=2001
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origlanguage= French
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writers=Jean Van Hamme
artists=Ted Benoit
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"The Strange Encounter" is the fifteenth Blake and Mortimer book in the series.

Plot

October 1777: a small troop of routed British soldiers wanders through the thick forests of the Adirondacks mountains. Hunted by the Native Americans and revolutionary troops, they are led by Scottish Major Lachlan Macquarrie. As they settle for the night one evening in a lone clearing, mysterious light beams are observed. As Macquarrie goes forth to investigate, the three light beams converge on Macquarrie and he vanishes into thin air. The rest of the group is then slaughtered by the revolutionary forces except for the solewitness of Macquarrie's disappearance. Upon returning to England, the witness is disbelieved, Macquarrie is branded a deserter and his family lives out in poverty for the rest of their lives.

177 years later, the body of Lachlan Macquarrie suddenly appears in Colorado. An eyewitness claims the body suddenly appeared following 3 strange colored beams of light matching the description of the disbelieved witness.. Philip Mortimer, one of Macquarrie's descendants, is called in to investigate. Eventually this leads to confrontations with black-clad men armed with green rays, the shocking return of an old enemy, incredible revelations, and a fight for Humanity's future.