Invasion (1975 novel)

Winter Moon  
Author(s) Dean Koontz (as Aaron Wolfe)
Original title Invasion
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Suspense, Horror
Publisher Berkley Publishing
Publication date 1975 (as Invasion); 1994 (as Winter Moon)
Media type Paperback
Pages 480
ISBN ISBN 0-553-58293-3 (Winter Moon edition)
OCLC Number 45858055

Invasion is a 1975 novel by author Dean Koontz. In 1994 Koontz re-released the book under a new name- Winter Moon. He also updated and revised it. Winter Moon is the current title under which the book can be purchased. Although Winter Moon acknowledges the fact that Koontz is the author of the book, Invasion was released under the pseudonym Aaron Wolfe. Invasion shall hereafter be referred to as Winter Moon. Winter Moon is a suspense novel with a moderate amount of horror mixed in.

Contents

The Book of Counted Sorrows

Overview

Winter Moon is divided into two parts. Part One: The City of the Dying Day, contains chapters one through thirteen. Part Two: The Land of the Winter Moon, comprises chapters fourteen through twenty-two.

In Los Angeles, a city street turns into a fiery apocalypse. In a lonely corner of Montana, a mysterious presence invades a forest. As these events converge and careen out of control, neither the living nor the dead are safe.[1]

Plot summary

The story begins with a thirty-two-year-old Los Angeles police officer named Jack McGarvey.

Characters

Jack McGarvey- Thirty-two year old police officer married to Heather McGarvey, and father of Toby McGarvey.

Heather McGarvey

Toby McGarvey

Eduardo Fernandez

The Giver/The Traveler

Travis Potter

Anson Oliver

References

  1. ^ Bell, James Scott. "Plot & Structure". Writer's Digest Books, 2004, p. 50.