Book Preview ALSO BY DEAN KOONTZ Your Heart Belongs to Me * Odd HoursThe Darkest Evening of the Year * The Good Guy * Brother OddThe Husband * Forever Odd * Velocity * Life ExpectancyThe Taking * Odd Thomas * The Face * By the Light of the MoonOne Door Away From Heaven * From … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY DEAN KOONTZ 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 · … Read more
Book Preview Prison of Ice (1976 original edition)(Revised and reissued as Icebound under his own name (1995))[Version 2.0 by BuddyDk – October 29 2003][Easy read, easy print][Completely new scan]Suddenly the ice opened in front of Harry, a zigzagging crack as wide as his hand.He staggered a few steps and leaped across the crack even as … Read more
Book Preview When Jenny returns to her medical practice in Snowfield after attending the death of her mother, she finds the shock of her young life. Everyone in the town is either horribly dead or missing. She does not know what or who has killed everyone or whether it will allow her and her fourteen-year-old … Read more
Book Preview ONE DOOR AWAY FROM HEAVEN A Bantam BookDecember 2001 All rights reserved. Copyright 2001 by Dean Koontz Book design by Virginia Norey This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html OLLIE’S HANDS By Dean R. Koontz THE JULY NIGHT WAS HOT. THE AIR AGAINST OLLIE’S PALMS MADE HIM aware of the discomfort of the city’s sweltering residents: millions of people wishing for winter. Even in the cruelest weather, however, even on a bitterly cold night filled … Read more
Book Preview NEAR SUNSET OF MY SECOND FULL DAY AS A GUEST IN Roseland, crossing the immense lawn between the main house and the eucalyptus grove, I halted and pivoted, warned by instinct. Racing toward me, the great black stallion was as mighty a horse as I had ever seen. Earlier, in a book of … Read more
Book Preview ONE IT’S ONLY LIFE. WE ALL GET THROUGH IT. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day. I still possessed … Read more
Book Preview To some folks I’ve known a long time and admire because they do good work and are good people: Peter Styles, Richard Boukes, Bill Anderson (Hello, Danielle), Dave Gaulke, and Tom Fenner (Hello, Gabriella, Katia, and Troy). We’ll have a fine party on the Other Side, but let’s not be in a hurry. … Read more
Book Preview This book is for Trixie, though she will never read it. On the most difficult days at the key board, when I despair, she can always make me laugh. The words good dog are inadequate in her case. She is a good heart and a kind soul, and an angel on four feet. … Read more
Book Preview ONE MY NAME IS ODD THOMAS, THOUGH IN THIS AGE when fame is the altar at which most people worship, I am not sure why you should care who I am or that I exist. I am not a celebrity. I am not the child of a celebrity. I have never been married … Read more
Book Preview BERKLEY PUBLISHING CORPORATION Copyright © 1975, by Dean R. Koontz Published by arrangement with the author’s agent. All rights reserved which includes the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc. New York, New York 10036 Library of Congress Catalog Card … Read more
Book Preview Author’s Introduction BY THE TIME they have finished this book, many readers will be uneasy, frightened, perhaps even horrified. Once entertained, however, they will be tempted to dismiss Night Chills as quickly as they might a novel about demonic possession or reincarnation. Although this story is intended primarily to be a “good read,” … Read more
Book Preview The citizens of Moonlight Cove, California, are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified – if not brutally murdered in the dead of night. Dean Koontz, the bestselling master of suspense, invites you into the … Read more
Book Preview Mr. Murder [067-011-4.9] Mystery writer Marty Stillwater’s happy life in southern California is turned upside-down by a stranger claiming to be he. By the best-selling author of Midnight. Winter that year was strange and gray. The damp wind smelled of Apocalypse, and morning skies had a peculiar way of slipping cat-quick into midnight. … Read more
Book Preview Midnight Dean R. Koontz The citizens of Moonlight Cove, California, are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified – if not brutally murdered in the dead of night. Dean Koontz, the bestselling master of suspense, … Read more
Book Preview A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. Wednesday, January 12, 1955, was frigid, gray, and somber. At twilight thick, fluffy snowflakes spiraled out of the low sky, and the people of Denver huddled in expectation of … Read more
Book Preview Life Expectancy By: Dean R. Koontz “Koontz [is] working at his pinnacle, providing terrific entertainment that deals seriously with some of the deepest themes of human existence: the nature of evil, the grip of fate and the power of love. “Publishers Weekly (starred review) With his best selling blend of … Read more