![]() ![]() The story starts during the fourth wave, in which snipers are picking off the scant remaining few. As humans move inland, the third wave takes out most of the survivors by spreading a virus that goes, well, completely viral. 2 targets our oceans, setting off tsunamis that flood the coastal cities, where most of the world’s population lives. Whoever it is who’s out to get us – we’ll have to wait until at least book two in this planned trilogy to find out – has clearly thought things through. ![]() It’s a savvy move by the author because the reader is immediately asked to consider: Whoa, could this really happen? Planes, whose navigational systems now depend on computers, fall out of the sky. This, of course, does more than prevent kids from texting each other. The aliens opening move is to disable all our electronics. Depending on how attached you are to your smart phone/tablet/computer, the “first wave” of attack by malevolent aliens intent on wiping out the human race in Yancey’s gripping thriller will either make you chuckle, or send a chill down your spine.
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