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
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Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there wasa 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 … Read more
Book Preview [Version 2.0 by BuddyDk – august 19 2003] [Easy read, easy print] [Completely new scan] Having just about concluded that it was nothing more than the wind and the storm that was upsetting the horses – and now they were all leaping and snorting more furiously than ever, as if they were not … Read more
Book Preview Copyright @ 1995 by Dean R. Koontz. This book is for Florence Koontz. MY mother. Long lost. My guardian. Hope is the destination that we seek. Love is the road that leads to hope. Courage is the motor that drives us. We travel out of darkness into faith. -THE BOOK OF COUNTED SORROWS … Read more
Book Preview HAVING ESCAPED ONE FIRE, I EXPECTED ANOTHER. I didn’t view with fright the flames to come. Fire was but light and heat. Throughout our lives, each of us needs warmth and seeks light. I couldn’t dread what I needed and sought. For me, being set afire was merely the expectation of an inevitable … Read more
Book Preview From The New York Times: POLAR ICE PUREST WATER MOSCOW, Feb. 10–According to Russian scientists, the water constituting the Arctic icecap has a far lower bacteria count than any water we now drink or with which we irrigate crops, a discovery that might make this vast frozen reservoir a valuable resource of the … Read more
Book Preview Hideaway [067-011-5.0] Hatchford harrison is pronounced dead after drowning in an automobile accident. When he is resuscitated after eighty minutes of freezing death, he finds himself psychically linked to a sociopathic killer. Through the killer’s eyes, Hatch sees a grewsome world, including a collection of cadavers hidden in an abandoned amusement park. Gradually, … Read more
Book Preview The Puppet came awake beneath budding apple trees, lying prone in a patch of twisted weeds and dry brown grass. He was a big man, well over six feet and consider-ably more than two hundred pounds, though none of the weight seemed to be fat. When he was still, his body was a … Read more