The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are mere footnotes in history, the west finally banished from the Middle East as a powerful new Caliphate unites the Islamic world to form the super-state of Arabia. While Europe wallows in a deep economic depression, rising food and oil prices spark growing social u
Invasion
โ Scribed by Robin Cook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan UK;Bello
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
To anyone glancing upwards at the night sky, it would have seemed like a brilliant shooting star... but moments later electronic equipment of every kind began to spark and explode throughout the city.
The following morning, college student Beau Stark is the first to pick up one of the countless strange black discs scattered far and wide. After an initial sharp pain like a bee-sting, he becomes gradually 'infested'. His flu-like symptoms signify the revival of an alien virus implanted millions of years in mankind's genetic code โ and since then lying dormant until the unwitting hosts are sufficiently developed to aid its relentless progress.
Meanwhile, all over the nation, other human beings and animals succumb to the same virus and start to behave bizarrely and symbiotically โ as if controlled by some outside influence.
As Beau assumes leadership of this growing band of the 'infested', his college friends quickly realize...
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