The home planet of the Nefilim is entering the solar system after it's long period (3,600 years) in the frozen reaches of space. These Nefilim want their old colony world (Earth) back and do not seem to be deterred by the UN's plans.

One of the areas of first contact between the two is on the North New Zealand island at a military base set up to guard and keep secret an archaeological project where hibernating Nefilim were first found, near the town of Barker's Mill. This base is commanded by an extremely ruthless and, I think, quite insane General. This soldier is one of the many characters involved in this story in many different groups.

We have a small group of locals who have penetrated the military compound, the Archaeologists, the UN personnel (including a manic Secretary-General and two twin Vice-SG's who are odd to say the least), the main group of Nefilim, a fifth column type group of Nefilim who disagree with the plans of their brethren, the odd time-travllers, and a group of genetic mutants - the resultant people from the initial experiments by the Nefilim to populate the Earth.

This is probably why the book does get a little confusing. There are conspiracies between Alien Species going on here. It's a bit like the X-Files at times, only it doesn't seem to bother all that much with the do they/don't they exist seen in that TV series.

That the author manages to keep all these threads going without everything unravelling is to his credit. The story is consistent and of reasonable interest. It would certainly appeal to anyone who is more of a conspiracies fan than I am.

Some of the characterisations are on the edge of stereotype but manage to not go too far as to be unreadable. There is a fair amount of imagination at work here - although the various elements of the story have been seen before (there's not much that hasn't) this does till have a kind of freshness about it.

While this is not a book that is going to set the world alight, it does show that this author is one to be looked out for in future years.

Synopsis
  Set in a near-future in which the New World Order goes mad as the Nefilim home planet's orbit brings it into the solar system for the first time in 3,600 years...

  Imagine that every conspiracy and new age theory that you've ever heard is true -- the Nefilim, the New World Order, 3 days of darkness, earth grids, the photon belt -- put it all together and you might make a mess of the world, but you get a great story in the process. The Day of the Nefilim takes the most popular contemporary conspiracy theories, mixes them with a few New Age favorites, and puts the resulting brew into a blender...

  A ship full of time-traveling misfits arrive on Earth to find that Marduk, the home planet of the Nefilim, is entering the Earth's solar system. The Nefilim, desperately wanting their old colony back, are not about to be deterred by the conspiracies being hatched by the UN and their cronies. The humans, it turns out, feel much the same about the Nefilim. An impasse that might have been resolved fairly simply, if it weren't for the mutant races who are sick of living underground, the imminent arrival of the photon belt, and a small-town girl who just doesn't know when to stop...