Several years after his fateful final encounter with would-be presidential assassin Matt Sinkage, private detective Phil Housley finds himself reluctantly protecting a paranoid lawyer from alien abductions, sin-ister government agents and mad scientists. At the same time Housley is battling demons from his past that threaten to unravel his own fragile sanity. Collected here for the first time, Abductions continues the Silent Invasion saga of a deeply paranoid and fearful America. (W) Larry Hancock (A) Michael Cherkas