Then, the calls started coming. Errol would get them in the middle of the night. All the caller would say at first was "cold, naked, alone." Later, he told Errol he was sleeping in the trees. Next, the stranger called him Airy, a childhood nickname that only his family used. The caller told Errol that it was his papa calling him. However, his father had died of cancer nine years before.

Finally, Errol went to the cemetery where his father was buried to check out the possibilities. Sure enough, there was a security hut with a phone where someone could have called. Later, he planned to go back to the cemetery and see who was playing this prank on him.

The night he went out, he waited until there was no way he would be seen. Once inside the walls of the cemetery, he found the security guard making his rounds. Errol waited until he was alone. Then, he made his way to his father's grave. There, he was tackled by a foul-smelling, naked black man of perhaps twenty. The young man bore a strong resemblance to his father. Who was this crazy man who claimed to be Arthur Bontemps Porter III, resurrected from the dead?

I've never met a bad book from Walter Mosley, no matter in what genre he was writing. The Wave is no exception. From the first word to the last, Walter Mosley will get and keep your undivided attention. Pick up a copy of The Wave and enjoy a truly absorbing science fiction story.