Waiting

Frank M. Robinson

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From the author who brought us the distinguished spy thriller Death of a Marionette and The Towering Inferno, one of the most popular films of the '70s, comes Waiting, an intense novel of contemporary menace, in the mode of Robinson's 1950s classic, The Power.

There are people living among us, who look just like normal human beings. They've been here for a long time--waiting. But they aren't exactly like us at all. Some of them can read minds, and in subtle ways take over what your are thinking, control you for a while.
They can make you love.
They can make you die.
One ordinary man in San Francisco, Arthur Banks, begins to find them out, and immediately his life and his family are in danger. It's a paranoid's worst nightmare. But that's just where it starts. He may well be fighting for the survival of the entire human race.

"I've always maintained that Frank M. Robinson's The Power was one of the best terror tales ever told. Waiting is even better, rich with character, suspense and constant surprise. This is one of the best chillers of the entire decade. It is guaranteed to give you nightmares. Reading this book was a pure pleasure."--Mystery Scene

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WAITING
CHAPTER 1It was Artie's favorite dream.He was lying on a grassy plain, naked, staring at the billowy white clouds slowly vaulting past in the blue sky overhead. It was warm, and a breeze stroked his chest and fingered the tangled hair that fell over his shoulders. He lifted his head slightly to stare at the mountains in the distance, their outlines fuzzed by a slight haze, then let it fall back. Without turning to look, he knew there were several caves a stone's throw behind him and that the plain in front ran forever.It was so pleasant that he didn't want to move; he just wanted to

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"A very creepy, intelligent reader's thriller...with legs. It moves, oh how it moves."--Harlan Ellison

"A page-turning novel whose theme is as frightening as its story!"--David Morrell

"A spellbinding novel by acclaimed master of suspense Frank M. Robinson."--Playboy

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Frank M. Robinson

Frank M. Robinson was born in 1926. He served in the U.S. Navy during both WWII and the Korean War, and earned degrees in physics and journalism. He worked at a number of magazines, including Science Digest, Rogue, Cavalier and Playboy before becoming a freelance writer. He is the author of many novels and stories, a noted collector of pulp magazines, and is executor of the estate of Harvey Milk. His novel The Dark Beyond the Stars won the Lambda Award. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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Waiting
Frank M. Robinson

Mass Market Paperbound

Mass Market Paperbound
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
April 2000
Mass Market Paperbound
ISBN: 9780812541649
ISBN10: 0812541642
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 368 pages
$7.99

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Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
April 2000
e-Book Agency
ISBN: 9781466818538
ISBN10: 1466818530
304 pages
$7.99
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