Product Description

A fast-paced and emotionally devastating suspense novel from the bestselling author of Velocity,The Husband and The Good Guy Amy Redwing recklessly risks everything in her chosen field of dog rescue. When she confronts a violent drunk in order to rescue Nickie, a beautiful golden retriever, Amy has no misgivings. Dogs always do their best, and so will she. Whatever it takes. Riding shotgun nervously is her friend and lover, Brian, an architect who would marry her if only she were not so committed to these crazy ! heroics! He blames her work for her refusal to marry him. But everything is due to change in the Redwing household. Someone is trying to destroy Amy. Subtle intrusions escalate into terrifying assaults on everything she holds dear. Amy believes her attacker is Wes Greeley, just released after an eighteen-month stretch, thanks to Amy's testimony, for egregious animal cruelty. But if Greeley is the culprit, it's clear he's not working alone. At last Amy understands her need of Brian, and a lot more from her troubled past that has been hidden by her passion. Unable to turn to any authority, Amy and Brian are pressed to the edge of a precipice as Koontz's most emotionally devastating thriller races with inexorable speed to a wrenching climax. Pick up a Dean Koontz thriller and you can't put it down: try one

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16678 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
'The long, dark winter nights take centre stage and keep you on tenterhooks in this brooding thriller' News of the World 'The plot twists that come thick and fast are classic Koontz' West Australian Praise for Dean Koontz: 'There's surprise after surprise, including a killer finale ! a read-in-one-go novel' Independent on Sunday on Velocity 'Velocity hits its pace from the first page and races through to a suitably climactic ending' Sydney Sunday Telegraph 'Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler' The Times 'Psychologically complex, masterly and satisfying' The New York Times 'A modern Swift ! a master satirist' Entertainment Weekly 'If Stephen King is the Rolling Stones of novels, Koontz is the Beatles' Playboy 'Dean Koontz writes page-turners, middle-of-the-night sneak-up-behind-you suspense thrillers. He touches our hearts and tingles our spines' Washington Post Book World 'Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose. Serious writers might do well to study his technique' New York Times Book Review 'Fast-paced and dark ! Koontz knows we live in a world where evil delights in justifying itself ! Classic literature that deserves a place on the bookshelf beside Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451' California Literary Review 'Koontz is writing right where popular culture swells into something larger, just as it did for Homer, Shakespeare, and Dickens. He's got the gift' Australian 'Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular fiction to explore the human condition' USA Today 'Inspires both chills and serious thought ! has the power to scare the daylights out of us' People 'The poet laureate of paranoid pop fiction' Denver Post 'Koontz achieves a literary miracle ! stunning physical description, unique turns of phrase' Boston Globe 'Near Dickensian powers of description' Los Angeles Times

About the Author
Dean Koontz is an international household name whose hugely entertaining parables for our times have been bestsellers in many countries, selling seventeen million copies each year. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he lives with his wife Gerda, their dog Anna, and the enduring spirit of their dog Trixie in southern California.

Customer Reviews

Roll on Frankenstein 3
Having read all of his books, this is a definate let down. Nowhere near his best. Suffice to say unlike most of his other books, it was very easy to put this book down(apart from the finale). Not a 'read in one'. Most dissapointing ever D Koontz book.

Great book - if you're a religious dog-lover
I am generally a fan of Koontz's work, have read pretty much everything published by him and always look forward to new releases. However, I found this novel extremely disappointing. There is always an element of religion and/or dog loving in Koontz, however in this story he was piling it on way too much for my liking.

The storyline was unconvincing and not up to Koontz's usual standards; it was very cheesy, a bit predictable, and in the end I found myself not caring at all about the main characters.

Read this book if you're a dedicated fan or really have nothing better to read, but don't expect anything spectacular. I would definitely not reccomend this for a first time Koontz, since you may come away disappointed and put off what can be a great author.

The darkest evening of his career?
I have read Dean's books since I was 11, and sadly this one has made me question my faith (how ironic) in my favourite author.

A few years ago Dean seemed to run out of steam and the characters in the books such as Velocity, The Good Guy, Life Expectancy, The Husband and The Taking became very one dimensional and (please note this is a personal view) quite religious and overly righteous.

As I have read all of Dean's books I am quite disappointed by this and I must say I found this one quite made me queasy with some of the undertones of moral purity and the righteous path of god... eeek too deep!

Essentially the book follows the same formula (man + woman + dog in dire need) followed by the same memesis (psycho loner + eccentric millionaire) leading to an expected (semi religious experience inducing) conclusion where family and dog(s)live happily ever after (no sex 'till marriage, the purity of dogs, family life etc etc. It's not exactly From the Corner of His Eye or Watchers is it? What happened to the excellent story telling of Fear Nothing or even more recently The Face???

Sorry to be so negative but this is by far the worst Dean Koontz novel I have ever read.