The Crivit Experiment (1985)
("V" novel)
Allen Wold

Seventh original "V" novel (eighth overall). The Visitors have a secret facility conducting breeding experiments involving crivits (sand burrowing carnivorous creatures first seen on the "Breakout" episode of the television series) in the Piedmont Mountain region of North Carolina.  They also have a secret prison camp on the former grounds of Fort Bragg military facility.  Several separate groups of individuals working against the Visitors--including one group of computer scientists working covertly to bug and monitor various Visitor installations, another group of students interested in vandalizing the Visitor offices on their college campus, and a poor farmer and moon shiner who just happens to live next to the Visitors' secret crivit breeding location--eventually all come together in an concerted effort to prevent the Visitors' plans from coming to fruition.

I enjoyed this one pretty well.  While at times I had trouble remembering who some of the characters were (especially the several computer scientists and the handful of college students), I found each of the characters to be well written (especially the poor farmer/moon shiner, Durk Attweiler), and I thought that the plot was pretty well paced.  The author also seemed pretty well researched in regards to the area this novel takes place in, North Carolina.  Oh, and I should mention that we do see one of the regular Los Angeles based characters, Chris Faber, come in towards the end to help this fledgling group of resistance fighters to organize a raid on the prison camp.  Next "V" novel up in my reading--after watching a couple of the television series episodes and also after reading some other non-"V" stuff, most likely--The Texas Run.  (Finished reading 12/10/06)