Dean R. Koontz - Midnight

Midnight Cove is your typical small close net community, if you consider agile flesh eating monsters roaming around at night typical.

Sam Booker is an FBI agent working undercover in Midnight Cove in order to find out why in the past few months 8 people have died under mysterious circumstances and then everyone of the bodies has been cremated.

Tessa Lockland is in Midnight Cove in order to find out how her sister really died. The official police report says valium overdose, but Tessa doesn?t believe it.

Harry Talbot is a decorated war hero confined to a wheel chair with one working arm and one semi working leg. He likes to stay up late and using his telescope he watches the town he lives in. He isn?t a voyeur mind you. He just likes to watch people because it gives him a sense of living with those people and being a part of his neighborhood.

This book is one of those books that you find hard to put down. From the first chapter it grips you and doesn?t let you go.

The one problem I found with this book is it is very similar to The Island of Dr. Mauroe (spelling?). The author makes reference to it several times so I think even the author realizes it. Fortunately this book brings new and interesting concepts of its own.

Creatures are starting to roam the streets at night consuming victims that are out-of-towners or people whose deaths can be explained in a normal way. It is obvious that the police are behind it and that most of the townspeople are acting very strange.

We also meet Chrissie Talbot who has been locked up in a closet for 24 hours and then escapes from her parents before they have a chance to ?convert? her. She gets on a horse and flees away from these wolf-like creatures.

Shaddock is behind the whole mess. Based on his twisted knowledge that this is his destiny he is obsessed with creating the master race. Thanks to a very good chapter in the book describing his childhood we discover he is a mad genius capable of anything.

Eventually these three people meet up and discover that the whole town is set to be converted by midnight by Shaddock the man who runs the local electronics laboratory. They also discover that these are not just wolf creatures after them, but something much worse.

Can they survive through the night and stop this genetic madness before they themselves get converted?