Invasion
Fans of Robin Cook's many thrillers will be happy to know another one is on  the way. In this latest outing,Invasion, Cook envisions a contact with  extraterrestials that is closer toAlienthan toE.T.. A gigantic spaceship  arrives in the stratosphere to dump some black disks onto Earth. Touch these things at  your own risk, however; unsuspecting souls who handle the disks receive a sting, soon  followed by flulike symptoms and ending in a kind of zombie assimilation into the alien  consciousness. And make no mistake: these aliens are up to no good--we know this  because the victims of the UFO-flu are soon transformed into hideous reptilian  creatures.Apparently, one consequence of being trapped by the aliens is that victims lose all  semblance of natural speech--most notably, contractions. The book abounds in dialogue  such as, "You must flee, Cassy," and "The electrical grid has been  interrupted. There will be no force counteracting the antigravity ..." Still, readers  looking for a good beach or bathtub book will findInvasionis right on the  money.