When a moon-sized alien artifact enters our solar system, humankind finally learns that we are not alone in the universe. When a wave of homicidal madness engulfs the planet, however, the human race is rapidly overwhelmed. As the madness known as the Red Wake threatens to topple civilization, monstrous armies appear in every city; inhuman creatures that stalk and slay as they lay claim to Earth's most important resource: the human race. In New York City, a man shattered by grief learns a terrible secret. Now Alan Whitmore must lead a band of survivors in a quest to find an even deadlier intruder, the one being that may possess the key to humanity's salvation. Can humanity survive in a world transformed by terror, and battered by forces beyond mortal comprehension?