Book Preview Malcolm gives me a tape recorder. He says, “You’ve got to talk your life.” “I’d rather live the now than talk about the was.” Malcolm says, “Not all of it. Just the … you know.” “I’m to talk about the you know?” Malcolm says, “People need to hear it.” Malcolm says, “Everybody. These are sad … Read more
Book Preview Dean Koontz (Deanna Dwyer) – Children of the storm [ V e r s i o n 2 . 0 b y BuddyDk – a u g u s t 3 2 0 0 3 ] [Easy r e a d , e a s y p r i n t ] [ … Read more
Book Preview The Book of Counted Sorrows The Book of Counted Sorrows Being the Mind-Bending, Heart-Stopping, Bowel-Freezing, Spleen-Tickling History of the Most Dangerous Book of Poetry Ever Written, Including the Text of That Cursed Book Itself, With the Prayer that God Will Protect You from a Spontaneous Head Explosion (and Even Worse Potential Fates) Introduction … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html THE BLACK PUMPKIN By Dean R. Koontz 1 THE PUMPKINS WERE CREEPY, BUT THE MAN WHO CARVED THEM WAS far stranger than his creations. He appeared to have baked for ages in the California sun, until all the juices had been cooked out of his flesh. … Read more
Book Preview Quicksilver · The Other Emily · Elsewhere · Devoted · Ashley Bell · The City · Innocence · 77 Shadow Street · What the Night Knows · Breathless · Relentless · Your Heart Belongs to Me · The Darkest Evening of the Year · The Good Guy · The Husband · Velocity · … Read more
Book Preview Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man’s troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong. Stranger friends hide here in human guise than reside in the valleys of Hell. But goodness, kindness and love arise in the heart of the poor … Read more
Book Preview Surrounded “”[Version 2.0 by BuddyDk – Oktober 9 2003][Easy read, easy print][Completely new scan][front flap:]The second fast-moving thriller by Brian Coffey featuring Mike Tucker, art dealer, heir to a vast unobtainable fortune and highly successful professional thief. He is persuaded to lead Meyers and Bates in the robbery of an exclusive California shopping … Read more
Book Preview A group of seemingly diverse people are experiencing fugue states and debilitating nightmares. Have they all shared a common experience? And, does that experience portend the end of humanity as we know it? Praise for Dean Koontz’s “Koontz] is a great storyteller, and STRANGERS features a plot so original you’ll be reading, with … Read more
Book Preview STRANGE HIGHWAYS 1 ON THAT AUTUMN AFTERNOON, WHEN HE DROVE THE RENTAL CAR INTO Asherville, Joey Shannon broke out in an icy sweat. A sudden and intense hopelessness overcame him. He almost hung a hard U-turn in the middle of the street. He resisted the urge to jam the accelerator … Read more
Book Preview [Dean Koontz – Starblood] [Scanned by BuddyDk – August 5 2003] [Original typos hasn’t been corrected] THE HOUND entered the room, sensed Timothy’s presence, made sure that he was the proper quarry. It fired three pins. Timothy slammed down on his mobility controls, streaked into the hall and down the cellar stairs. He … Read more
Book Preview Jumbo ten was pulling out of the ranks. “J-10, LOCK ON YOUR TIER: SWING TO ZERO STRESS. FALL IN, J-10!” Jumbo Ten swung farther out of the advancing line, whirled and looked to the rear. He had been in the se-cond wave moving toward the battle-scarred plain be-low. The third was crushing the … Read more
Book Preview The real Barbara Christman won a prize: the use of her name in this novel. Considering that she was one of a hundred booksellers involved in the lottery, I am surprised by the way in which her name resonates in this particular story. She was expecting to be portrayed as a psychotic killer; … Read more
Book Preview A Hotplate, a Chair, and a Bed … Only a few months past twenty-one, I received my col-lege diploma and rushed forth to conquer the world. The world turned out to be larger, more complex and sillier than I had imagined; I decided to settle for conquering just a little section of it … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Snatcher 1 Snatcher from STRANGE HIGHWAYS by Dean Koontz Billy Neeks had a flexible philosophy regarding property rights. He believed in the proletarian ideal of shared wealth — as long as the wealth belonged to someone else. On the other hand, if the property belonged to … Read more
Book Preview SHATTERED was previously published in hardcover under the pseudonym of K. R. Dwyer. SHATTERED A Berkley Book / published by arrangement with the author Random House edition published 1973 Berkley edition / February 1985 Copyright @ 1973 by Nkui, Inc. Back cover photo copyright @ Jerry Bauer. A BERKLEY BOOK c) TM 757,375 … Read more
Book Preview Shadowfires — Dean R. Koontz A fearful divorcee is relieved when her enraged ex-husband dies in a freak accident, but her terror returns when his body disappears and she is stalked by a man who looks just like him. Rachel wants no part of her husband Eric’s research empire or his fortune. She … Read more
Book Preview Seize The Night [067-011-066-5.0] Chris Snow, the light-phobic, oddball hero of Dean Koontz’s Fear Nothing, is once again caught in the middle of something ugly. The children (and pets) of Moonlight Bay, California, are disappearing. The first to go is Jimmy Wing, the son of Snow’s former girlfriend, Lilly. Then Snow’s own hyper-intelligent … Read more
Book Preview Well, now Thanksgiving is safely past, more turkey eaten this year than last, more stuffing stuffed, more yams jammed into our mouths, and using both hands, coleslaw in slews, biscuits by twos, all of us too fat to fit in our shoes. So let’s look ahead to the big holiday that’s coming, coming, … Read more