
The Kraken Wakes
John Wyndham
1953

Robert A. Heinlein · 1951
224 pages
Books like “The Puppet Masters”A covert agent is recalled from leave when a flying saucer lands in Iowa and parasitic slugs begin attaching themselves to human hosts. The slugs control their victims' bodies while drawing on their memories, and the agent and a small team race to expose the invasion before the people in charge are no longer human.
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