A Top 10 Book for the Summer
—NPR’s “All Things Considered”
“Frank M. Robinson, a wonderfully bold and inventive writer, has created a masterful work of fiction. Waiting is a novel of impeccably mounting suspense which leads to an utterly original revelation. Step by step, Robinson takes us on an absorbing and ever-deepening fairground ride and drops us through a startling trap door in evolutionary history.”
—Peter Straub
“Waiting is a thriller with smarts, and it is a pleasure to recommend. Characters are richly detailed, and the plot twists are fascinating as well as credible in this very fine novel. Robinson creates terror in everyday settings—there is no safe harbor. Waiting is a novel of suspense that makes you think about the large questions of illusion and reality. What happens to your sense of self and its place in the world when you learn that someone you’ve known all your life is nothing like you knew … . Read Waiting with all the lights on and all the doors and windows locked, not that mere locks and lights will save you.”
—Bay Area Reporter
“A truly frightening and plausible story about another species of human beings, in hiding for 35,000 years and now ready to take control of the planet … . Robinson grips his readers by combining visceral fear with intellectual inquiry. This creepily credible tale will have his readers looking more closely at their so-called friends.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A thriller about the distant past and terrifying future, set in a vividly drawn San Francisco all too plausible.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Frank M. Robinson writes an ice-cold story of our future, yours and mine. Two million years of humanoid history point to one inevitable conclusion and now Robinson explores that coming event. Many of us will be involved, like it or not.”
—Wilson Tucker
“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.”
—Ed Gorman, Mystery Scene