The Possessors

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Undiscovered gems - Rated
Do you absolutely love that feeling that you have found an undiscovered gem? John Christopher is just such a writer, and a british one at that, a diamond in the rough. At first his writing seems ordinary and unimpressive, but within three pages you are hooked. The Possessors isn't the best of his books and deals with what is now an old idea - an alien being infecting and controlling people - but as the book progresses and the people staying in the snowbound holiday chalet in Switzerland start getting picked off one by one you can't help but listen to the howling of the wind outside, or look out the window to see if a face with dead eyes is staring back in at you. Draw the curtains, extinguish all the lights except one reading lamp and delight in this good old fashion chiller.