The Taking (Dean Koontz)

The Taking

Dean Koontz

Blurb: On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known...

Molly and Neil Sloan wake to find and eerily luminous downpour drenching their small Californian mountain town. As the rain continues to fall, TV pictures relay disturbing news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe.

With the evening comes a ghostly fog. Their sense of isolation is complete when first TV and radio, then the internet and phone lines go dead. Molly and Neil gather with neighbours, sensing an awful danger approaching with the night..It's like a scary movie made real. But what is really happening? Is it science gone wrong or a technology beyond human understanding?

Or something deeper, more fundamental. Something to do with fate and purpose.

Something that won't have a Hollywood ending.

ISBN: 9780007841479 (Paperback)

Year: 2004

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers

Pages: 410 (Fiction)

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Life Expectancy (Dean Koontz)

Life Expectancy

Dean Koontz

Blurb: When the hand of fate reaches out to touch an ordinary man...

In the moments before he is born, Jimmy Tock has a strange destiny thrust upon him. His dying grandfather prophesies five dark days in his grandson's life - five dates on which Jimmy will face terror and violence, malice and perversion. A storm rages. There is a chilling significance in the old man's words. The moment his grandfather dies, Jimmy emerges squalling into the world, destined to struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.

What dangers await Jimmy on these five dark days? What terrifying events must he survive? At each of the crisis points a mystery unfolds that will challenge his understanding of good and evil, life and death - and everything in between.

ISBN: 9780007843770 (Paperback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: Harper

Pages: 549 (Fiction)

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The Face (Dean Koontz)

The Face

Dean Koontz

Blurb: The Face. As Hollywood's most dazzling star he has the love of millions - but the hatred of one deeply twisted soul. Just before Christmas, the star has received six messages promising a very nasty surprise.

The Face's security chief is Ethan Truman, an ex-cop with a troubled past. He's found the messenger but not the source of the threat, and he's worried. But not half as worried as he would be if he knew that Fric, the Face's ten-year-old-son, was home alone and getting calls from 'Moloch, devourer of children'. The terrified boy is planning to go into hiding in his father's vast mansion - putting himself beyond Ethan's protection.

And Ethan may be all that stands between Fric and an almost unimaginable evil...

ISBN: 9780007843763 (Paperback)

Year: 2003

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers

Pages: 672 (Fiction)

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Odd Thomas (Dean Koontz)

Odd Thomas

Dean Koontz

Blurb: He's Odd. Odd Thomas, to be precise. Genius fry-cook at the Pico Mundo Grill; boyfriend to the gorgeous Stormy Llewellyn - and possibly the only person with a chance of stopping one of the worst crimes in the bloody history of murder...

Something evil has come to the desert town that Odd and Stormy call home. It comes in the form of a mysterious man with a macabre appetite, a filing cabinet full of information on the world's worst killers, and strange, hyena-like shadows following him wherever he goes. Odd is worried. He knows things, see things - about the living, the dead and the soon to be dead. Things that he has to act on. Now he's terrified for Stormy, himself and Pico Mundo. Because he knows that on Wednesday August 15, a savage, blood-soaked whirlwind of violence and murder will devastate the town.

Today is August 14.

And Odd is far from sure he can stop the coming storm...

ISBN: 9780007849130 (Paperback)

Year: 2004

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers

Pages: 420 (Fiction)

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