"Superb science fiction thriller"
Unemployed system administrator Errol Porter thinks
nothing of the calls except for the inconvenience as they
wake him up every night. He assumes someone is pranking
him with the insistence that the caller is his father.
Errol's dad died in 1996. As the calls keep coming, Errol
begins to wonder if he might be a bit deranged as the
person on the other end is beginning to speak and sound
just like his father and more frightening the man knows
insider information that only he and his father Arthur
Bontemps Porter III could know. Unable to resist Errol agrees to meet Arthur, but is
stunned when he sees his dad's face, albeit a much younger
Arthur than he remembers. He wonders if GT ("Good Times")
is a con, but has no idea what the person would benefit
from this ruse or could he be a ghost? US Army officer
Dr. David Wheeler places Errol under house arrest until he
can figure out how to persuade his superiors that we have
been invaded by "demons from hell" and how to combat
them. While David expects the invasion of the body
snatchers, Errol trusts no one especially the Feds or his
so-called dad, but admits while he ponders what next as
the sex with David's wife is good. As he did with FUTURELAND, Walter Mosley displays his vast
skills with this superb science fiction thriller. The
story line focuses mostly on Errol who keeps digging one
step at a time only to find that next stride even more
convoluted and confusing. Like the hero, readers will
wonder what is going on until suddenly the 200 plus page
novel is finished in one delightful sitting. Sci Fi fans
will see why mystery readers find it easy to give THE WAVE
to the great Walter Mosley. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted December 15, 2005
SummaryErrol is awakened again by a strange prank caller asking
for him by name and claiming to be his father-who has been
dead for several years. It feels like a surreal call from
the grave, until Erroll hears the unmistakable sound of a
handset being put down on a table. Curious, and not a
little unnerved, he sneaks into the graveyard where his
father is buried. What he finds there will change his life
forever. But once Errol has been touched by the Wave, a
presence infecting the planet, can anything be the same
again? With the boldimagination that made Blue Light a
bestseller, Walter Mosley returns to science fiction with
a novel both eerie and transcendent.
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