Product Description

The first time the lightning strikes Laura Shane is born...

The second time is strikes the terror starts...though eight-year-old Laura is saved by a mysterious stranger from the perverted and deadly intentions of a drug-crazed robber. Throughout her childhood she is plagued by ever more terrifying troubles, and with increasing courage she finds the strength to prevail – even without the intervention of her strange guardian. But, despite her success as a novelist, and her happy family life, Laura cannot shake the certainty that powerful and malignant forces are controlling her destiny.

Then the lightning strikes once more and shatters her world. The adventure – and the terror – have only just begun...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28930 in Books
• Published on: 1989-03-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

About the Author
Dean Koontz was born into a very poor family and learned early on to escape into fiction. His novels have sold over 200 million copies worldwide and more than thirty have appeared on national and international bestseller lists. He lives in southern California with his wife, Gerda and a vivid imagination.

Customer Reviews

Absorbing, beautifully written
I am a librarian who usually reads older "literary fiction". I read this book on the recommendation of a friend and discovered in one swoop one of the finest authors I have ever read! Such wonderful writing and so entertaining too. I am hooked. I will read the rest of his back catalogue immediately! Certainly, this book; with its rich characterisations and deft plotting has to be a whole lot more literary than what supposedly is. Read it, buy it, love it! Thank you Mr Koontz.

THE Koontz book, top quality
This is, as stated many times above, definitely the best Dean Koontz there is - and I've read them all!

The story takes you from the past to the future; it twists, turns, makes you shiver and touches you. Sounds like a lot of blabla, but I do not want to give anything away. Let's just say that the theme is : whoever tries to change the course of history will find that the world tries to go back to the fate that was decided for you in the first place. But imagine that you could go back, and change important world events....what if? Also, the love described in the book between Danny and Laura is amazing. Not in the sexual sense, though; it describes two true soulmates.

Great book. Do not hesitate: buy this!

The best Koontz book
This was the second Koontz book that I ever read and definitely the best. Here he weaves a tale which grips right from the off and never lets go! He creates such believable and lovable characters( and also some detestable people too!) that you can't help but turn the page to see just where he takes them. This book's heroine, Laura Shane, seems so real that you want to help her whenever she is threatened by danger or death. He creats a wonderful relationship for her and then almost cold-bloodedly tears it away from under her feet and the readers'. A master at work and he is yet to surpass this book, which I feel is the best, having read it many times now. He has come close with others but not yet beaten it. I look forward to the next Koontz as soon as I've finished one.