Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Jack Finney

Forgive the crude and tasteless title, it's been a long day at work. So, Invasion of the Body Snatchers eh? The novel I picked up second-hand a few days ago was published in 1978, an expanded version of the short story from the 1950s so famously adapted by Hollywood. A heroic doctor by the name of Miles spends about 160 pages phoning people up in the middle of the night to laugh at them before trying to convince them there's an alien invasion on in the small Californian town of Mill Valley. For some reason he doesn't have much joy convincing people. Miles is an odd one all right. When he's not getting people out of bed to panic at ...  Read the complete review