Invasive: A Novel
Written by Chuck Wendig
Narrated by Xe Sands
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“Think Thomas Harris’ Will Graham and Clarice Starling rolled into one and pitched on the knife’s edge of a scenario that makes Jurassic Park look like a carnival ride. Another rip-roaring, deeply paranoid thriller about the reasons to fear the future.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI—a futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. It’s her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland.
Hannah is in an airport, waiting to board a flight home to see her family, when she receives a call from Agent Hollis Copper. “I’ve got a cabin full of over a thousand dead bodies,” he tells her. Whether those bodies are all human, he doesn’t say.
What Hannah finds is a horrifying murder that points to the impossible—someone weaponizing the natural world in a most unnatural way. Discovering who—and why—will take her on a terrifying chase from the Arizona deserts to the secret island laboratory of a billionaire inventor/philanthropist. Hannah knows there are a million ways the world can end, but she just might be facing one she could never have predicted—a new threat both ancient and cutting-edge that could wipe humanity off the earth.
Chuck Wendig
Chuck Wendig is a novelist, screenwriter and game designer. He's the author of many published novels, including but not limited to: Blackbirds, The Blue Blazes, and the YA Heartland series. He is co-writer of the short film Pandemic and the Emmy-nominated digital narrative Collapsus. Wendig has contributed over two million words to the game industry. He is also well known for his profane-yet-practical advice to writers, which he dispenses at his blog, terribleminds.com, and through several popular e-books, including The Kick-Ass Writer, published by Writers Digest. He currently lives in the forests of Pennsyltucky with wife, tiny human, and red dog.
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Reviews for Invasive
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tried this on the strength of the Star Wars aftermath novel series
A solid concept of modified ants to reset humanity with a billionaire villain (so Mr Bond........,.,) in the background
However what really let them s down was the narrator (sorry!), the delivery was flat and without pace.
Not one I will come back to but it passed a couple of afternoons on the beach.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It had just about everything I look for in an book; adventure, excitement, intrigue. But, I had a hard time getting past the narration. Book was probably better than I'm giving it credit for.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book. Story keeps moving forward with twists. Excellent narration.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved it! Kept me on the edge the whole time!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Worth your time!
Xe Sands is a wonderful narrator.
Chuck Wendig's masterful story wound around myth and fear and survivalism was super. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kept me guessing, good amount of ant violence, and it made me distinctly uncomfortable. Pretty good!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I've read/watched a LOT of horror/sci fi horror, and it takes quite a bit to get my skin crawling. This book scores about 8/10 on the gore/body horror scale, so if you are easily grossed out - especially by bugs - I would sit this one out.
Great multidimensional protagonist, fast paced mystery that simultaneously has a slow burn feel as the story builds. This book will disgust you and keep you wanting more - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nice bit of writing. The characters were nicely developed. The plot stood alone and had soild movement. Not a horror story but it was truely suspenseful. This was clean writing with bits of science mixed in, which I found the perfect combination. I blew thru it quickly, it was compelling...I would have done 5 stars if there was gore. From the opening chapter, I was sure there would have been but I was ok with mild descriptions since the writing was strong enough to carry me thru without it. Worth the try.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Plot itself was a unusual but it was hard to get behind this book with the narrator.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If I graded this along with my favourite books, I might drop half a star, but basing this novel on its own merits and the genre, it’s a solid 4/5. One review on the cover claims it to be one for fans of Michael Crichton and I can understand why. Its fast pace and solid imagery makes for a book a reader can plough through. The threat feels real, as does the inevitable countdown to time running out. The march of endangerment is as inexhaustible as the unrelenting insectile invasion, though this is no B-Movie. There’s a disturbing note of truth on the evolutionary, environmental, and genetic interference scale that’s all too sadly believable. Of course, this is a stretch of the imagination, but in this type of story, that’s what the reader is looking for. An enjoyable read, though not for anyone suffering from Myrmecophobia (fear of ants).
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Genetically engineered killer ants freak out an FBI futurist sent to investigate them. A fair amount of gore along with the ant science; death of innocents, including at least one child, suggested rather graphically.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I have been obsessively checking my ankles for ants ever since I started this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5**This book was reviewed for San Francisco Book Review**Wendig's Invasive sinks its mandibles in from the start and refuses to let go. Terse, yet eloquent, it'll keep you up all night. Whether it's to finish it, or because you're too afraid to sleep, well now, that's a different question altogether. And now I have the Pink Panther theme stuck in my head….Hannah Stander, a futurist consultant for the FBI is in her way home to visit her survivalist parents when she's called away by Agent Hollis Copper to a remote cabin in the woods with no other information than that it contains 'over a thousand bodies’. Not human bodies, as it turns out. The cabin contains one badly mutilated human corpse and thousands of wee ant corpses. Like an army of tiny Ramsey Boltons, these ferocious beasties flayed him alive before falling to the coming winter. Okay, falling to an early spring frost. Hannah's job is to try and discover what the blazes went down here, and if a crime had even been committed. She learns the ants contain proprietary genes from one Arca Labs, so off to Hawai'i she goes, to the remote Kolohe Atoll. What she uncovers is a far more sinister than she ever could have imagined. And she can imagine a great deal! Its part of her job after all.I love the language. Descriptive, yet minimal, Wendig gets his point across in graphic detail, proving you do not, in fact, need a thousand words to paint a picture. Sometimes the right four or five will do just fine. To whit: “-the eyes bulging white fruits against the muscles of his cheeks and forehead.” Yeah, forget everything else, that right there freaked the bejeezus out of me. I’m very eye sensitive, having lost one. It's clear a great deal of research went into this novel. Given the propensity today to play god and create chimeras in the lab, Invasive rings a great deal more plausible than my beloved Jurassic Park. ????? Highly recommended, especially if you like the works of Michael Crichton, Douglas Preston, and Lincoln Child.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My skin started crawling on page one, and I'm still brushing imaginary ants off of me. Nightmare fuel.