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
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