Saber-tooth tigers attack Los Angeles in Rovin's gung-ho second novel of cryptozoological horror. (In the first, Vespers, Rovin imagined mutant bats tearing up New York City.) The new novel opens in classic horror style, on a Santa Barbara hillside, as something large but unseen stalks a bobcat that's in turn stalking a dog: soon there are "streams of blood, all that remained of a bobcat on its final hunt." Cut to anthropologist Jim Grand, mourning the recent demise of his beloved wife. Cut to two engineers investigating a sinkhole near that hillside; in minutes they, too, are dead, but ...
A new name in terror flies circles around the competition.Vicious bat attacks moving southward along the Hudson River prompt Nancy Joyce, a bat scientist who works for the Bronx Zoo, to investigate. When the attacks move into the New York subway system, Manhattan police detective Robert Gentry becomes involved. Joyce and Gentry team up to determine what is causing this unusual behavior. What they discover will keep listeners pinned to their seats and clawing for more.
