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I wanted to read this because I love the author’s The Night Callers, another creepy extraterrestrial attack on London. Where most of his books are seafaring adventures for young adults.
This delivered, but wasn’t as tight as The Night Callers. The story includes some familiar 1950s sci-fi movie ideas, alien mind control and an invisible energy beast somewhat like Forbidden Planet’s “monster from the Id”.

I enjoyed the long set up of this premise, but then I gave up completely halfway through when the plot jumped the shark... twice! First half is like the second season of Fringe, an alternate reality New York - not bad for a novel written in 1968.