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After years of his life spiraling downward, Errol Porter thinks things are finally starting to pick up. He has a new girlfriend and a job that he likes. The only thing that is bothering him are the phone calls he's getting late at night. His father is the caller and he's complaining about the cold and wants Errol to come to him. Since Errol's father has been dead for quite a few years Errol assumes the voice on the phone asking him to go to the graveyard has got to be some kind of cruel joke. But Errol is curious and goes to the graveyard and finds his father there. This person is a lot younger than his father was when he died but the man looks like him and he knows everything about Errol's life and the Porter family. Errol takes his 'father' home but before they can get really close the FBI and Homeland Security kidnaps Errol and takes him to a place where they explain exactly what Errol's father is. But in reality neither Errol nor the government knows what they are really getting into. Errol soon escapes and the government starts searching for him. I've been a fan of Walter Mosley for a long time and even though I know he's written some science fiction stories I haven't read any of them. If THE WAVE is anything at all like his other sci-fi works I will take a permanent pass on them. THE WAVE is a story about an alien life form that has been living inside the Earth for years, moving towards the surface until they were able to take on the form of humans by using dead bodies as their hosts. The government finds out about it and is trying to rid the world of them before the human race is completely taken over. At first the story was fairly compelling but then it went downhill. Mosley gives the readers a long explanation about 'the Wave' which turns out to be some sort of tar substance that the aliens use to take over dead bodies. The Wave is what connects all the aliens together so that they think as one unit and that power gives them their immense knowledge. At least that's what I think it is. The explanation is so convoluted that I stopped trying to figure it out and just continued to read this very short book. The characters are not likable and when Errol isn't busy running from the government and looking for his dead father he's busy having sex with every woman in the story. As a long-time Mosley fan, I hope he stops writing science fiction to concentrate on his other highly acclaimed mystery series. They are so much better. There is no need to read THE WAVE. It's rather flat.
Reviewed by Sharon Katz, February 2006
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