Rating: 
Summary: Steibner has written a horror movie.
Review: With this book Strieber shows his background in film by writing something that can best be described as
a novelization of a bad 50's monster movie, with the characteristic lack of plot, absence of reason behind
the decisions taken by the main characters, and their total indifference to the motivation and nature of
the opposing forces.
The story, what little there are, consist of such standard ingredients as a menacing government operated
experiment gone wrong, the courageous physicist who ran the project earlier but left it before it went bad
and now has to fix it and some badly described supernatural monsters breaking through to our reality
from a non-specified and obviously never though out "other place". Add a sprinkling of cult worship by
leading town figures (quickly dropped again as it doesn't fit the rest of the book, but unfortunately not
removed as it should have been), a transformation effect that makes "normal" people into more
monsters (except for a newborn child, immune due to innocence, but still sought afer by the "monster")
and you'll end up with something like this book, slightly entertaining at first read, but not worth reading
a second time.
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