Product Description

They escape from a secret government: two mutant creatures, both changed utterly from the animals they once were. And no one who encounters them will ever be the same again: a lonely widower; a ruthless assassin; a beautiful woman; a government agent. Drawn together in a deadly hunt, all four are inexorably propelled towards an evil beyond human imagining.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47484 in Books
• Published on: 1988-05-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

About the Author
Dean Koontz’s novels have sold over 200 million copies worldwide and more than 30 have appeared on national and international bestseller lists. He lives in southern California with his wife, Gerda.

Customer Reviews

A dazzling combination of suspense, horror, and romance
You have not read a book until you have read Watchers by Dean Koontz. Why? I will try to be brief.. no book can ever match the powerful beginning of this novel. It was gripping, thrilling, from page 3. There is a lot of description, but Dean has a way of making every description useful and enjoyoyable - unlike some authors who bore you to death with totally irrelevant paragraphs. His characters may be extreme in some ways, nevertheless, they were painted into realistic people that can indeed exist in real life. For the first few chapters.. you will be intrigued at how different incidents can be connected.. then slowly and with a lot of mystery, the story begins to connect and become clearer.

Travis, Nora, Einstein, and Vince are the main characters in the book. Dean allows you to see the world from their eyes, which can be fascinating because they are fascinating characters!

Einstein, the dog, will capture your heart. Even the evil presence in the story will have you sympathize with it. The plot is structured so well that there is no spot where the action slows down. Given the long time within which the story takes place, this novel is very fast paced and will leave you at the edge of your seat.

And I have to confess that Koontz does not leave you unsatisfied or frustrated at any point. The characters will ask the questions that you have in your mind, and the action will keep you fully aware of the current situation. The suspense will leave you shuddering, and the romance will warm your heart. This is a story that is full of emotion.. where there is a lesson at the end for mankind. It will stay in my heart to the end of my life.

Best book ever
I first read watchers when I was 14, as I got into my twenties I was still thinking about this book it really got my imagination going. I read the book 13 years later to find the book still had me hooked from the first page, I have never really been a reader as I need to get into the book from the start and Dean Doontz does that.I feel that the book seemed a little better when I read it 13 years ago,(your imagination goes wild as a child) but it's a really good read and the best that Dean has written
I must admit since I read it I am a Dean Koontz fan and can't get enough of his books.

I found that you even start to feel sorry for the outsider by the end of the book, It's like a game of cat and mouse and I love it. You will be well and truely hooked.

One of Koontz's best books to date
I've always been a big fan of Dean Koontz, and I got this fairly recently. I have to say it's one of my favourite books to date.
Dean Koontz lends his signiture bledn of thriller and sci-fi to bring you the story of two genetically engineered aniamls and how they shake the lives of the people around them.
Sound cushy? It isn't, this has some of the most graphic gore I've read so far, and the 'villan' of the 'outsider' is superbly imagined and frightening- appealing to your most base instincts to fear of devourment. The monster-under-the-bed made real and very, very intelligent.
The hero of the piece is undoubtedly 'einstien' the intelligent dog, and koontz lies on plenty of emotion to have you adopting him into your own heart. koontz loves dogs, and no more is it appearent here, but again you begin to love him not as a pet, but as a new intelligent life.
But this isn't all about the animals. In signiture style Koontz brings you multiple characters, all very layered and well written. The protagonists are expecially sympathetic and despite the number of characters, and how each threatens the others, you seem to want to root for them all.
An interesting point here, I think, is that Koontz seems to take two sides with hsi villans (of which I counted 3 in this books, although they make varying apearances). The outsider is the big mutant baddie, but you also get a hitman and a sexual predetor. And while the outsider is hideously violent, koontz seems to make you fear the humans even more. the outsider is rage personified, driven by jealosy and hatred, and yet at the end we sympathise with it.
The Frankenstien story and more all wrapped up in one hell of a read.
Koontz fans, or any reader, should check this out.