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    Invasive: A Novel

    By Chuck Wendig

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    Michael Crichton meets Elon Musk in this gripping sci-fi tech thriller, set in the eye-opening, paranoid world of the electrifying Zeroes and From the author of Wanderers and the Miriam Black series.

    Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI—a futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. It’s her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland.

    Hannah is in an airport, waiting to board a flight home to see her family, when she receives a call from Agent Hollis Copper. “I’ve got a cabin full of over a thousand dead bodies,” he tells her. Whether those bodies are all human, he doesn’t say.

    What Hannah finds is a horrifying murder that points to the impossible—someone weaponizing the natural world in a most unnatural way. Discovering who—and why—will take her on a terrifying chase from the Arizona deserts to the secret island laboratory of a billionaire inventor/philanthropist. Hannah knows there are a million ways the world can end, but she just might be facing one she could never have predicted—a new threat both ancient and cutting-edge that could wipe humanity off the earth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 16, 2016
    ISBN9780062351609
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    Chuck Wendig

    Chuck Wendig is the author of the Miriam Black thrillers (which begin with Blackbirds) and numerous other works across books, comics, games, and more. A finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the cowriter of the Emmy-nominated digital narrative Collapsus, he is also known for his popular blog, terribleminds.com. He lives in Pennsylvania with his family.

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    • 4/5
      My skin started crawling on page one, and I'm still brushing imaginary ants off of me. Nightmare fuel.
    • 3/5
      Nice idea well written and plotted. However too much time was spent on the authors pet philosophies and predictions. The science was glossed over but was certainly on the money and up to date. The heroine was carrying just a little bit too much baggage and added too much backstory. All in all though worth reading with plenty of gruesome deaths, nasty bugs and more twists than a scary mountain road. Sadly the current American obsession with weapon product placement marred an otherwise commercial free read.
    • 5/5
      I wish I could leave more than a five star rating!! This book is enormously entertaining, well researched and informative… made an imaginative and unlikely scenario believable!
      I was obsessed from start to finish
    • 1/5
      If you’re looking for good writing, look elsewhere. Formulaic. Obvious device after obvious device, executed poorly. Clunky cringey choices on almost every page.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      If I graded this along with my favourite books, I might drop half a star, but basing this novel on its own merits and the genre, it’s a solid 4/5. One review on the cover claims it to be one for fans of Michael Crichton and I can understand why. Its fast pace and solid imagery makes for a book a reader can plough through. The threat feels real, as does the inevitable countdown to time running out. The march of endangerment is as inexhaustible as the unrelenting insectile invasion, though this is no B-Movie. There’s a disturbing note of truth on the evolutionary, environmental, and genetic interference scale that’s all too sadly believable. Of course, this is a stretch of the imagination, but in this type of story, that’s what the reader is looking for. An enjoyable read, though not for anyone suffering from Myrmecophobia (fear of ants).
    • 3/5
      Genetically engineered killer ants freak out an FBI futurist sent to investigate them. A fair amount of gore along with the ant science; death of innocents, including at least one child, suggested rather graphically.
    • 4/5
      I have been obsessively checking my ankles for ants ever since I started this book.
    • 1/5
      Now this was just a very silly book. Uniquely turgid descriptors throughout though.

      1 person found this helpful