His implants, injected into the victims, also are being used to mind-control the escorts at a fancy brothel. Targeted by drones and other sophisticated technology, the grieving widow hides her young son with friends and moves stealthily across southern California tracking down the culprits-primarily mad scientist Bertold Shenneck.

After discovering that an odd surge in suicides, including that of her decorated Marine husband, was triggered by nanotech brain implants, FBI agent Jane Hawk goes rogue to root out the evil conspiracy behind the deaths. Koontz remains one of the most fascinating of contemporary popular novelists, and this stands as an important effort, but not his best, though its sincerity and passion can't be denied. Also missing here is the wonderful humor that elevated his last novel, Odd Thomas While his care with words engenders admiration, his love of metaphor and alliteration can slow down the reading ('the luminous nature of the torrents that tinseled the forest and silvered the ground').

Koontz's language has changed over the years, too, and not always for the better. His aliens are inherently evil as well as scary standing against them are the human capacity for hope and the forces of goodness and innocence (here, as elsewhere, embodied in dogs), and near novel's end Koontz puts an overtly religious spin on his tale. For years, however, Koontz has aimed at more than just thrills today he is a novelist of metaphysics and moral reflection. It's only when they drive to a nearby town that they learn of a global alien invasion the tension ratchets as a weird fog descends and the aliens not only manifest physically but animate the dead. Is attacking humans and laying waste to communications. The new novel also features abundant suspense, as a couple in an isolated California home endure a phosphorescent rain and learn that, around the world, something Was mostly speed and suspense-a brilliant if superficial exercise in terror. Koontz's new novel also concerns alien invasion, and a comparison of the two books offers insight into the evolution of this megaselling author's work. , 1994), a breakneck tale of alien invasion centered on an isolated farm.

In 1975, the now defunct Laser Books issued Invasionīy Aaron Wolfe, aka Koontz (who later expanded that novel into Winter Moon

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