Four men, and their memories of a fifth, return to a hunting cabinet in the middle of wintry woods. They have been doing so since they were kids, and for them it's a lot more than just a hunting weekend with the boys.  This time will be different, that is for sure.  Nearby the army enters and seals off an area, because what is believed a spaceship has landed there.  And though the beings don't have very special weapons, nothing the army cannot deal with anyway, they do bring things that are more difficult to tackle.  Pray you'll never find out for real what those things are...  The army has managed to destroy all of the invaders.  Except one, which is using the body of one of the four men.  He is still in there too, and he's doing what he can to obstruct this Gray guy, but without the help of the fifth he won't be able to do it - and this Gray guy has plans nobody on this Earth wants to see executed, for then there is no way to stop them anymore...

A good story.  The introduction is pretty long - it takes about 170 pages to get some action - but it is used to do what King can do best: show us the people as they are.  Make us know them, and like them, and believe them.  For the group of four plus one shares something extraordinary, and they will need that.  But also: the better we know the people, the more shocked we will be to see what happens to them - and the more helpless while watching things happen...

It could benefit from some editing though.  I felt that in the second half, the chase, there was less "skill" than "technique", and that was a pity.  But overall I liked it, it got me stuck for a lot longer than I wanted, and far more often than was good for my daily planning :-)