Godzilla Returns
Author: Marc Cerasini
Pages: 233
Year: 1996
Publisher: Random House

Synopsis: 1954 - Tokyo, Japan, is leveled by a gigantic rampaging monster – a force more powerful than a tsunami, more devastating than an atomic bomb. The creature is supposedly killed. But the few who survive his attack are forever haunted by a paralyzing fear that he could rise again…
1996 – Brian Shimura, a Japanese-American college student, has just arrived in Tokyo to work as a newspaper intern. His first assignment is to help investigate the so-called “return” of some legendary dinosaur monster. But when the fiery destruction begins, Brian’s skepticism is quickly transformed into awesome dread. This mythic monster is no myth…
GODZILLA HAS COME BACK TO RAGE AGAIN!

Review: Marc Cerasini brings back the King of the Monsters in a way that has been echoed only a few times in the film series since the original in 1954, as a realistic threat to both Japan and the world. This seriousness, combined with the realistic look at Godzilla through the eyes of the military and reporters, is what gives this book, as well as the other books in the series, an exhilarating thrill that has yet to be uncovered in the latest “Alternate Reality Series” of films to come out in Japan lately. I personally think that Toho should make one of these books into a film, with so much action going on it would be one incredible film to behold.