Dean Koontz je autorom napínavých príbehov, ktoré sa zameriavajú na postavy, tajomstvá a dobrodružstvá a prenikajú k samotnej podstate ľudskosti. Jeho diela, oceňované kritikou a milované miliónmi čitateľov po celom svete, skúmajú hĺbky ľudskej psychiky. Koontzov jedinečný štýl a schopnosť vytvárať pútavé zápletky z neho robia jedného z najvýznamnejších autorov súčasnej literatúry. Jeho príbehy často reflektujú zložitosť ľudskej povahy a morálne dilemy.
Román plný mystiky a sci-fi. Hatch Harrison, obeť autonehody, zomiera skôr, ako sa dostane do nemocnice, no lekár vynímočných schopností mu priam zázračne vráti život. Hatch, ktorý dostáva druhú šancu, spolu so svojou ženou Lindsey sa opäť tešia zo života a objavujú jeho nové krásy, až kým ich záhadné a desivé udalosti nepostavia zoči-voči neznámemu zlu. Hoci si Hatch z posmrtného života nič nepamätá, má dôvod obávať sa, že si zo záhrobia priniesol späť medzi živých niečo hrozné.
Najnovší, brilantne napísaný román majstrovského rozprávača Deana Koontza. Do duše svojho Mesta vás vtiahne od prvej vety. Dean Koontz rozpráva nezvyčajný príbeh o hudobne nadanom chlapcovi a o meste, v ktorom žije. Jeho život je celkom obyčajný až do chvíle, kým nestretne nádhernú ženu, ktorá mu v sne ukáže tváre a činy ľudí bez svedomia a ľudskosti. Títo ľudia vstúpia do Jonahovho života a s nimi aj nebezpečenstvo a strach. Vďaka tomu však spozná silu priateľstva a zachráni niekoľko životov. Spozná, ako na človeka vplývajú veľké aj malé tragédie, ako nešťastie dokáže človeka zničiť a niekedy ho, naopak, zachráni malý dobrý skutok. Autor originálnym spôsobom odhaľuje, akí jedineční, ale aj strašní dokážu byť ľudia, a aké krásne, čarovné, ale aj nebezpečné a desivé môže byť mesto.
Jsou silnější, neuvěřitelně rychle se uzdravují, dokonce myslí rychleji než lidé – a mají společného stvořitele, Viktora Hélia, kdysi známého jako Viktor Frankenstein. Ten ve své laboratoři tvoří něco děsivého – novou rasu, která má nahradit tu lidskou. Jediný, kdo tomuto plánu může zabránit, je policistka Carson O‘Connorová, její parťák Michael Maddison a Deukalión – jedno z monster doktora Frankensteina…
Op een parkeerplaats bij een supermarkt wijst een dolgedraaide sekteleider een hoogbegaafd jongetje aan als de reïncarnatie van de duivel. Hij zal moeten gedood worden. Dan begint een brute, beklemmende heksenjacht. De sekte is overal...
Číslovka 21 přitahuje nejen karbaníky. Tento almanach detektivních povídek, vydaný nakladatelstvím Domino, nese stejné jméno jako sborník z roku 1967, ale nejde o reedici. Zatímco dávný výběr měl rehabilitovat žánr klasické detektivky, nyní jde o komerční shrnutí jednadvaceti malých drahokamů žánru. Tato díla, vybraná americkými znalci Johnem L. Breenem a Edem Gormanem, splňují označení „malá dílka velkých mistrů“, i když některé povídky jiskří víc než jiné.
Mezi autory najdeme literární hvězdy jako G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler a další. Nechybí ani následovníci zakladatelské generace, jako Ross Macdonald, Ruth Rendellová či Georges Simenon. Zajímaví jsou i autoři, které český čtenář nemusí znát, jako Jacques Futrelle, který utonul s Titanikem, či současníci Bill Pronzini a Sara Paretskyová.
Příběhy jsou pestré a rozmanité. I když almanachy představují pouze ochutnávku, dík patří nakladateli a překladateli Jiřímu Kobělkovi za seriózní výkon. Tento svazek v hezké obálce by rozhodně neměl uniknout nikomu, kdo se o detektivku dvacátého století zajímá více než jen jako o kratochvíli do vlaku.
The No.1 bestselling classic from Dean Koontz, the master of chilling suspense, that will thrill fans of Stephen King and the Odd Thomas series. The first time the lightning strikes Laura Shane is born... The second time it strikes the terror starts... though eight-year-old Laura is saved by a mysterious stranger from the perverted and deadly intentions of a drug-crazed robber. Throughout her childhood she is plagued by ever more terrifying troubles, and with increasing courage she finds the strength to prevail - even without the intervention of her strange guardian. But, despite her success as a novelist, and her happy family life, Laura cannot shake the certainty that powerful and malignant forces are controlling her destiny. Then the lightning strikes once more and shatters her world. The adventure - and the terror - has only just begun...
Každé město má svá tajemství, žádné však není tak strašlivé jako toto. Právě před vámi stojí – tajemný, bájný, hrůzný i kouzelný… Frankenstein. Oslavovaná představivost Deana Koontze dala vzniknout působivému rozvinutí jednoho z nejklasičtějších příběhů všech dob. Pokud si myslíte, že znáte legendu, víte jen půlku pravdy. Deukalión, tetovaný muž záhadného původu, mistr iluzí, prošel staletími s tajemstvím horším než smrt. Přijíždí do New Orleans v době, kdy v ulicích řádí sériový vrah – vrah, který si své oběti pečlivě vybírá pro lidskost, kterou v sobě postrádá. Deukalióna jeho cesta zavede k chladné a drsné policistce Carson O'Connorové a jejímu věrnému parťákovi Michaelu Maddisonovi, kteří pátrají po onom zabijákovi. Brzy však objeví něco mnohem děsivějšího: celou rasu zabijáků, kteří jsou mnohem lepší – a horší – než lidé. Objeví i jejich ze všech nejhrozivějšího, šíleného, takřka nesmrtelného stvořitele Viktora Hélia – kdysi známého jako Viktor Frankenstein.
Zatímco křehká nadčasová povídka Zázračné ruce vypráví o samotářském podivínovi, jenž je pro své parapsychologické schopnosti odsouzen k životu na okraji společnosti, novela Chase, nazvaná podle hlavní postavy a původně publikovaná pod pseudonymem K. R. Dwyer, je pevně zasazena do roku 1971: prezident USA je R. M. Nixon a válka v Indočíně, v níž padlo nebo bylo raněno tři sta šedesát tisíc Američanů, skončí až za dva roky. Ben Chase, sužovaný traumatem hrůzostrašných zážitků z Vietnamu, náhodou vyruší úchylného vraha, který svou zášť obrátí proti němu. Hrdina se přímo očima čtenáře mění z pronásledovaného na pronásledovatele, vybředá z deprese a nakonec je schopen navázat hluboký citový vztah.
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Bartholomew Lampion was blinded at the age of three, when surgeons reluctantly removed his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. But although eyeless, Barty regained his sight when he was thirteen. This sudden ascent from a decade of darkness into the glory of light was not brought about by a holy healer. No celestial trumpets announced the restoration of his vision, just as none had announced his birth. A rollercoaster had something to do with his recovery, as did a seagull. And you can't discount Barty's profound desire to make his mother proud of him before she died. The first time she died was the day Barty was born. January 6, 1965.
"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate ... with a short-order cook named Odd Thomas in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant.
I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it. Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He's just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that's why he's won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when a childhood friend disappears, Odd discovers something worse than a dead body and embarks on a heart-stopping battle of will and wits with an enemy of exceptional cunning. In the hours to come there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. You're invited on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror and transcendence to wonders beyond imagining. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.
With his bestselling blend of intensity, artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz presents an emotional roller coaster filled with twists, turns, shocks, and surprises. This tale follows five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy, challenging perceptions of good and evil, life and death. Jimmy Tock enters the world as his grandfather departs, during a violent storm. As Rudy Tock walks the hospital corridors between the waiting room and his father's bedside, a strange vigil unfolds. At the storm's peak, Josef Tock sits up and speaks coherently for the first time since his stroke, delivering a chilling message: five dark days await his grandson, each marked by terrible events. The first occurs in Jimmy's twentieth year, followed by crises in his twenty-third, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, and thirtieth years. Initially dismissing his father's words, Rudy is unsettled when he learns Josef accurately predicted Jimmy's birth details and a physical anomaly. The weight of these predictions grows, leading to questions about the terrifying events that lie ahead for Jimmy. As the story progresses through each crisis, Jimmy's journey defies expectations, revealing a fate he could never have imagined. His struggle against pervasive evil will test the limits of his spirit, uncovering a mystery that is both dangerous and wondrous.
Christopher Snow, a young man whose genetic disorder has made him dangerously vulnerable to light, witnesses a series of disturbing after-dark incidents that involve him in a violent mystery only he can solve. Reissue.
Closer...They found the first body hideously swollen and still warm. Then they found two severed hands. Then two staring heads in wall ovens. 150 were grotesquely dead and it had hardly begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.and closer...At first they thought it was a maniac. Then they thought it was an obscene new disease. Then they thought it was the Russians.and closer...Then they found out the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...
V tomto sborníku čeká čtenáře výběr sedmi nejlepších povídek roku od těch nejlepších autorů, kteří již za svá díla získali řadu ocenění. Všechny příběhy mají jedno společné - jsou plné napětí a setkáte se v nich se zločiny, které obestírá temné tajemství. Lahůdka pro všechny milovníky detektivních příběhů a záhad.
Povídky:
- Doug Allyn: Gin Mill (The Gin Mill)
- Dana Stabenow: Vraková práva (Wreck Rights)
- Clark Howard: Ve vězení (Deep Lock)
- Carole Nelson Douglas: Kybervánoční koleda (Scrogged: A Cyber-Cristmas Carol)
- Terence Faherty: Černá vdova ze Slane (The Widow of Slane)
- Steve Hockensmith: Rošťárny (Tricks)
- Anne Perry: Příběh z jednoho města (A Tale of One City)
Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds. He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in the chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites our understanding - but often thwarts it. Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn here, he finds work as cook and assistant to a once-famous film actor who, at eighty, has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywood's golden days. Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome. By day he senses a free-floating fear in the air of the town, as if unleashed by the crashing waves. But nothing Prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before...
Martie is an ordinary woman until she develops autophobia - fear of oneself. As her condition worsens, her husband is determined to find out what triggered her illness and he finds that Dr Mark Ahriman (a leading psychiatrist) may be more than just a doctor but perhaps a prime suspect.
RUN... OR DIEThe van was in back of them again. Closer this time. There could be no mistake--they were being followed.RUN... OR DIEBut why? The question kept nagging at Alex and Colin as they left Philadelphia behind and sped toward their new home in San Francisco. Courtney would be waiting for the, ready to begin a wonderful new life with her husband, her brother...RUN... OR DIENow, someone else is driving cross-country to see Courtney, too. Someone whose brain is rotting inside. Someone who knows their route, their stops, even their destination.RUN... OR DIEHe's got an ax."Shattered catches you by the throat and won't let you go" --Chicago SunTimes
When artist Dylan O'Connor pulls into a motel off the Arizona interstate highway, all he wants to do is relax with his autistic brother Shepherd, and get a good night's sleep. Yet within the hour he finds himself bound, gagged and being injected with some mysterious fluid by a lunatic 'doctor' who claims that Dylan will be the carrier for 'his life's work'. Jillian Jackson, a comedian, is midway through her tour of seedy cocktail lounges and and second-rate comedy clubs, accompanied only by her pet pot plant Fred. Her plans for stardom are dramatically altered, however, when she too falls victim to the same eccentric scientist, who makes off with her beloved cadillac. The doctor warns his victims that he is being pursued and that they too are now targets. If they are caught, they will be killed. Both are sceptical, but when 3 black Chevrolet Suburbans come screaming into the motel carpark and Jillian's stolen car is found in flames, they begin to wonder if the lunatic doctor wasn't so mad after all...
The international bestseller Dean Koontz delivers a masterclass of storytelling suspense in this thriller. What would you do if a serial killer forced you to choose who he murders next? On the windscreen of his SUV, Billy finds the first note. It gives him a choice. If he takes the note to the police, an elderly woman will be killed. If he doesn't approach the police, a schoolteacher will die. He thinks it's a hoax. The schoolteacher is killed. Further notes taunt Billy's conscience, forcing him to decide who lives and who dies. He must think the unthinkable, fast, in an accelerating nightmare. More communications from the killer follow with ever tighter deadlines. Each is more personal, more confrontational than the last until he is isolated, with no one to rely on but himself. Finally, he must risk everything to save the helpless, clueless victims...
Baba Lavelle is a stranger in New York. A stranger with a mission to break the Mafia stranglehold on the city's drug traffic, and take it over himself. He has no guns, no army of hoods, no friends in high places. But he has the Power - magical, ancient, and terrifyingly brutal. The power that thrives in darkness.
Tina Evans dreams that her son Danny is still alive. And when she wakes, she finds a message scrawled on Danny's chalkboard: not dead. Tina searches for the truth and learns that there are some things worse than death. Includes a new Afterword by the author. Reissue.
Reporter Holly Thorne is intrigued by Jim Ironheart, who has saved 12 lives in the past three months. Holly wants to know what kind of power drives him, why terrifying visions of a churning windmill haunt his dreams, and just what he means when he whispers in his sleep that an enemy who will kill everyone is coming. a oeA master storyteller, sometimes humorous, sometimes shocking, but always riveting. His characters sparkle with life. And his fast-paced plots are wonderfully fiendish, taking unexpected twists and turns.a - The San Diego Union-Tribune
On an ordinary afternoon, an ordinary man, a gardener of modest means, gets a phone call out of his worst nightmare. The caller is dead serious. He doesn't care that Mitch can't raise that kind of money. He's confident that Mitch will find a way. If he loves his wife enough... Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself. He's got sixty hours to prove it. He has to find the two million by then. But he'll pay a lot more. From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is a thriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist, every shock, every revelation. This is a Dean Koontz novel, after all. And there's no other experience quite like it.
Forced to kill in the line of duty, police detective Harry Lyon finds his rational world transformed into a place of bizarre surprises and unimaginable dangers. 400,000 first printing. $175,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild & Doubleday Main. Mystery Guild Alt.
Detective novelist Tommy Phan comes home to find a strange doll on his doorstep. That night, something terrifying breaks out of the doll and begins to follow Tommy wherever he goes.
One by one, the children of Moonlight Bay are disappearing. No one knows if they are dead or alive. Christopher Snow, suffering from the rare disorder xeroderma pigmentosum, has glimpsed the dark and torrid secrets of the small-town community where he has spent his entire life. And only he has the key to the truth - a truth that could only exist in the genetic chaos of Moonlight Bay.
Ghosts are always hungry, someone once said and no one knows how ravenous they really are more than Ed and Lorraine Warren, the world's most renowned paranormal investigators. For decades, Ed and Lorraine Warren hunted down the truth behind the most terrifying supernatural occurrences across the nation and brought back astonishing evidence of their encounters with the unquiet dead. From the notorious house immortalized in The Amityville Horror to the bone-chilling events that inspired the hit film The Conjuring, the Warrens fearlessly probed the darkness of the world beyond our own, and documented the all-too-real experiences of the haunted and the possessed, the lingering deceased and the vengeful damned
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes the must-read thriller of the year, perfect for readers of dark psychological suspense and modern classics of mystery and adventure.
Timothy Carrier, having a beer after work at his friend’s tavern, enjoys drawing eccentric customers into amusing conversations. But the jittery man who sits next to him tonight has mistaken Tim for someone very different—and passes to him a manila envelope full of cash. “Ten thousand now. You get the rest when she’s gone. ” The stranger walks out, leaving a photo of the pretty woman marked for death, and her address. But things are about to get worse. In minutes another stranger sits next to Tim. This one is a cold-blooded killer who believes Tim is the man who has hired him. Thinking fast, Tim says, “I’ve had a change of heart. You get ten thousand—for doing nothing. Call it a no-kill fee.” He keeps the photo and gives the money to the hired killer. And when Tim secretly follows the man out of the tavern, he gets a further shock: the hired killer is a cop. Suddenly, Tim Carrier, an ordinary guy, is at the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions, the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer far more powerful than any cop…and as relentless as evil incarnate. But first Tim must discover within himself the capacity for selflessness, endurance, and courage that can turn even an ordinary man into a hero, inner resources that will transform his idea of who he is and what it takes to be The Good Guy. From the Hardcover edition.
Odd Thomas has seen danger and he has seen death. He lives between two worlds, communicating with the lingering dead. He stands between us and our darkest fears, never failing the tests that confront him, whatever the cost. He finds refuge in a crumbling mansion, a place of terrible secrets, haunted by lingering spirits.
Kdo s vámi bude ve vaší poslední hodince? Amy Redwingová zasvětila svůj život zachraňování opuštěných psů. Jednou si přivede domů Nickie, fenku zlatého retrívra, ke které ji už od začátku pojí prazvláštní pouto. Ale její momentální radost zastiňuje několik podivných událostí. Amy má pocit, že ji na každém kroku někdo sleduje. Zlověstný cizinec v jejím domě. Ona i fenka Amy budou muset prokázat vzájemnou oddanost – v sázce je jejich život.
Dean Koontz je mistrný vypravěč, který vás dokáže dojmout k slzám stejně jako vystrašit k smrti. Knížka Nejtemnější večer roku je prostoupena tajemným napětím, která vám nedovolí odtrhnout vydechnout.
Mary Bergen is a clairvoyant, able to foresee murders that will happen in the near future but unable to prevent them from taking place, but she is up against a power that is corrupting her mind and trying to kill her before she can identify it.
In the stunning title story 'Strange Highways', a failed author returns to his hometown after many years to attend his father's funeral, only to find himself suddenly and inexplicably thrust back through time to relive a traumatic event from his past. One rain-swept Sunday night when he was twenty years old, on his way back to college after a weekend with his family, Joey Shannon took the wrong highway - and from that moment, nothing ever went right for him again. Now, exactly twenty years later, on another rain-swept night, Joey finds himself at the same crossroads, looking down the road never taken. Which is odd. Because that road no longer exists. A superhighway replaced it nearly twenty years ago, and the old state route - which had crossed a web of perpetually burning, abandoned coal mines - was condemned as too dangerous and was torn up. But now the highway is exactly as it was on that long-ago night, and when Joey turns on to it, he begins an eerie, terrifying journey toward a truth so dark and stunning that it will change everything he believes about himself, his past, and the nature of life.
Do you dare step through the red door? Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can't fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one--including the U.S. government—and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he'd buried years ago—inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don't first.
A Los Angeles crime reporter whose wife and daughters were killed in a plane crash meets a woman who claims to have survived the crash while a shadowy organization tries to stop her.
After Detective John Calvino receives a signed confession to a shocking crime from 14-year-old Billy Lucas, he feels that somehow Billy has come home with him, to his family. Then another killing spree happens, just as and when John Calvino dreaded it would. Billy is safely locked away, but not the "ghost", if the ghost exists, that links these murders with past crimes, and with John Calvino. Anything could happen, and surely will-- again.
Úmyslem této antologie je nabídnout čtenářům skupinu variací na téma lovců číhajících na své oběti, aniž by se v nějaké z nich vyskytl zrychlený dech na zvukovém záznamu nebo tak hloupá hrdinka, že jde po půlnoci do starého domu...,“ píše v úvodu antologie, obsahující 19 horrorových povídek mistrů horrorového žánru, jež spojuje stejné téma, jeden ze dvou editorů Ed Gorman.
Seznam povídek:
V pasti (Dean R. Koontz)
Útěk (John Coyne)
Den ze života (F. Paul Wilson)
Lovec ještěrů (Robert R. McCammon)
Piloti (Joe R. Lansdale a Dan Lowry)
Stopař (Ed Gorman)
Dotáhnout to do konce (Rich Hautala)
Kainovy děti (Al Sarrantorio)
Ze zásady (Max Allan Collins)
Prosincová slečna (Rex Miller)
Ve věci propuštění (John Maclay)
Posvátný oheň (Charles de Lint)
Stopař duší (Edward D. Hoch)
Darwinovské důkazy (Barry N. Malzberg)
Hon (Richard Laymont)
Matka Tucker (James Kisner)
Jezábel (J. N. Williamson)
Co řekla Chelsea (Michael Seidman)
Rivereños (Trish Janeshutz)
Woody Bookman za jedenáct let svého života nepromluvil ani slovo. Ani když jeho otec zemřel při hrozné nehodě. Ani když mu jeho máma říká, že ho miluje. Jediné, na čem Megan záleží, je bezpečí a štěstí jejího syna. Jenže Woody věří, že za smrt jeho otce může nestvůrné zlo, které nyní ohrožuje jeho i jeho matku. A nemyslí si to sám. Slyší ho i spojenec, jehož doposud nezná. Woodyho strašlivé podezření se potvrdí. Zákeřný muž hnaný zlem uvede do pohybu svůj zvrácený plán. A jde po Woodym a jeho matce. Ze zvířecích důvodů. A jeho síla roste. Navíc není sám.
Bestselling novelist Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich is a fortunate man, enjoying a successful career and a loving family, including his wife Penny, a children's book author, and their brilliant six-year-old son, Milo, affectionately known as "Spooky." Despite his happiness, a single negative review from the feared critic Shearman Waxx disrupts his peace. Though the review is harsh and inaccurate, Cubby resolves to ignore it, supported by Penny and even Milo. However, curiosity leads him to seek out Waxx, hoping to understand the man whose opinion holds such power. What starts as a simple encounter quickly spirals into a nightmare. Waxx proves to be far from the expected recluse, and his methods of dealing with those who challenge him are terrifying. Cubby finds himself caught in a perilous struggle against a relentless sociopath, facing threats that extend beyond his career to his very life. As the situation escalates, Cubby must confront the dark consequences of crossing paths with a man who wields criticism like a weapon, putting everything he holds dear at risk.
Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, and elevators plunge into unknown depths.
Many readers wonder what inspires the creative genius of bestselling suspense writer Dean Koontz. Much of the credit must go to Trixie, the golden retriever who has taught him things about life that no human ever could. Trixie shows us how to be happy every moment of the day, except those fleeting moments after a meal when the dish is (temporarily) empty. Dogs know how to work hard and to play even harder. With words of wisdom only a bird dog knows, and beautiful photos to warm your heart, this book will lift your spirits and make your leg shake uncontrollably with pleasure! Trixie wrote LIFE IS GOOD to support her friends who are service dogs for people with disabilities. She is donating her royalties to Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), the national organization that breeds and trains assistance dogs for adults and children with disabilities.
In ELSEWHERE, master storyteller Dean Koontz, has created a brilliant and terrifying speculative thriller with hat-tips to George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and HG Wells.
Seven legendary authors recount the life of Lyle Speaks, from his hardscrabble boyhood in Texas to his later years as an aging cattle rancher in Montana, years in which his colorful past may yet come back to haunt him.
This anthology features 13 mystery stories written by well-known mystery authors collaborating with their children and grandchildren. Each story features a short personal introduction by the adult and child writing team on what it was like to collaborate on their included story. Contributors include Scott Turow, Sharyn McCrumb, Stuart Kaminsky, Jonathan Kellerman, Elizabeth Engstrom, and many others.
On the eve of World War II, Hiroki Okumo, disciple of an ancient Japanese religion, seeks the long-lost key to the devastating Black Wind while two men try to steal his fiance, Meiko
Jane Hawk—fiction’s most relentless, resourceful, stunning new
heroine—continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting
sequel to The Silent Corner. “No time to delay. Do what you were born to do.
Fame will be yours when you do this.” These are the words that ring in the
mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun—just before she
takes her own life, and many others’, in a shocking act of carnage. When the
disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain
that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better. In the wake of her
husband’s inexplicable suicide—and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of
other exemplary individuals—Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of
powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But
the ruthless people bent on hijacking America’s future for their own monstrous
ends never banked on a highly trained FBI agent willing to go rogue—and become
the nation’s most wanted fugitive—in order to derail their insidious plans to
gain absolute power with a terrifying technological breakthrough. Driven by
love for her lost husband and by fear for the five-year-old son she has sent
into hiding, Jane Hawk has become an unstoppable predator. Those she is
hunting will have nowhere to run when her shadow falls across them.
"Jane Hawk--rogue FBI agent and the country's #1 fugitive--confronts her worst nightmare when her enemies strike shockingly close to home ... Jane Hawk thinks her precious five-year-old son is hidden safely away, with vigilant, indomitable friends. But the malice and resources of her powerful adversaries are boundless and their hunters are circling ever closer to the boy, hoping to draw his mother into their trap. Jane's courage, wits, discipline, and skill will be tested as never before, as she searches for a way through an ever-contracting labyrinth of terror."
Odd Interlude, Dean Koontz’s New York Times bestselling three-part digital series—now in one volume for the first time THERE’S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT. Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner offers everything a weary traveler needs—a cozy diner, a handy service station, a cluster of cottages . . . and the Harmony family homestead presiding over it all. But when Odd Thomas and company stop to spend the night, they discover that there’s more to this secluded haven than meets the eye—and that between life and death, there is something more frightening than either.
They escape from a secret government: two mutant creatures, both changed utterly from the animals they once were. And no one who encounters them will ever be the same again: A lonely widower; a ruthless assassin; a beautiful woman; a government agent. Drawn together in a deadly hunt, all four are inexorably propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond human imagining.
Jane Hawk faces the fight of her life The No.1 New York Times bestseller and master of suspense Dean Koontz returns with a blockbuster new thriller featuring rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk. `I could be dead tomorrow. Or something worse than dead' Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk knows she's living on borrowed time. But as long as she's breathing, she'll never cease her one-woman war against the terrifying conspiracy that threatens the freedom - and free will - of millions. Battling the mysterious epidemic of murder-suicides that claimed Jane's husband has made Jane a wanted fugitive, hunted relentlessly by the secret cabal behind the plot. They are determined to see her dead . . . or make her wish she was. Propelled by her righteous fury, Jane will confront head-on the lethal forces arrayed against her. But nothing can prepare her for the chilling truth that awaits when she descends the crooked staircase to the dark and dreadful place where her long nightmare was born.
Ingenious plot twists create an engaging and often chilling narrative, captivating readers with unexpected developments. The book's ability to maintain suspense while delivering a compelling story has garnered praise, highlighting its skillful storytelling and emotional depth.
Buddy Holly's plane just went down. But for P.I. Sam McCain, bad news hits even closer to home. A local couple turns up dead, and the investigation teaches him that behind the white picket fences of small-town Iowa, there's a flip side to the American dream.
In a small town besieged by monstrous creatures, scattered survivors unite to confront a looming threat. As they prepare for battle, they uncover Victor Frankenstein's dark and nihilistic vision for humanity's future, revealing the chilling extent of his influential allies. The story explores themes of survival, resistance, and the moral implications of scientific ambition amid a backdrop of chaos and fear.
Millionaire investigator Alex Hunter meets exciting, desirable Joanna Rand while on a mission in Japan but finds that she is a Senator's daughter who disappeared 10 years ago and now has a new identity. By a #1 best-selling author. Reissue.
When Micky Bellsong encounters disabled Leilani Klonk and her stepfather, Preston Maddoc, she finally finds some purpose in her troubled life, so when the family disappears, Micky embarks on an arduous mission to find them.
Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown - and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get him? When society is sick, the mad are sane - and persecution is a killer's game...
When nowhere is safe... The start of a gripping new thriller series featuring
rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk, from the master of suspense and New York Times #1
bestselling author.
When things get scary, it’s nice to know that Odd is on our side. The one and only Odd Thomas is back—in his second edgy and enthralling graphic-novel adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling suspense master Dean Koontz.It’s Halloween in Pico Mundo, California, and there’s a whiff of something wicked in the autumn air. While the town prepares for its annual festivities, young fry cook Odd Thomas can’t shake the feeling that make-believe goblins and ghouls aren’t the only things on the prowl. And he should know, since he can see what others the spirits of the restless dead. But even his frequent visitor, the specter of Elvis Presley, can’t seem to point Odd in the right direction.With the help of his gun-toting girlfriend, Stormy, Odd is out to uncover the terrible truth. Is something sinister afoot in the remote barn guarded by devilish masked men? Has All Hallows Eve mischief taken a malevolent turn? Or is the pleading ghost of a trick-or-treater a frightening omen of doom?
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz unleashes a contagion on a small Maine town—one that triggers the darkest desires of the soul. Designed by top scientists and unleashed in a monstrous conspiracy, night chills are seizing the men and women of Black River—driving them to acts of rape and murder. The nightmare is real. And death is the only cure...
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz raises the stakes—and the suspense—taking his Frankenstein saga to a dynamic new level with the riveting story of a small town under siege, where good and evil, destruction and creation, converge as the fate of the world hangs in the balance. FRANKENSTEIN: LOST SOULS The war against humanity has begun. In the dead hours of the night, a stranger enters the home of the mayor of Rainbow Falls, Montana. The stranger is in the vanguard of a wave of intruders who will invade other homes . . . offices . . . every local institution, assuming the identities and the lives of those they have been engineered to replace. Before the sun rises, the town will be under full assault, the opening objective in the new Victor Frankenstein’s trajectory of ultimate destruction. Deucalion—Victor’s first, haunted creation—saw his maker die in New Orleans two years earlier. Yet an unshakable intuition tells him that Victor lives—and is at work again. Within hours Deucalion will come together with his old allies, detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison, Victor’s engineered wife, Erika Five, and her companion Jocko to confront new peril. Others will gather around them. But this time Victor has a mysterious, powerful new backer, and he and his army are more formidable, their means and intentions infinitely more deadly, than ever before.
Golden retriever Trixie misses her best friend, Jinx the dachsund, when Jinx's family takes him on vacation. By the best-selling author whose books are published in 38 languages and have sold over 400 million copies, including 12 New York Times #1 best-sellers.
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the story, you know only half the truth. Get ready for the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of…Dean Koontz's Prodigal SonEvery city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself–and that just may be where this case ends up. For the no-nonsense O’Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are more—and less—than human. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For their quarry isn’ t merely a homicidal maniac—but his deranged maker.
The sixth Odd Thomas thriller from the master storyteller. Our reluctant hero is drawn once more into a strange encounter with the lingering dead. Later that morning, when I walked downtown to buy blue jeans and a few pairs of socks, I met a guy who offered to neuter me with a .45 pistol. In a sinister encounter with a rogue truck driver, Odd - who has the gift of seeing the dead and the soon-to-be dead - has a disturbing vision of the slaughter of three innocent children. Across California, into Nevada and back again, Odd embarks on a road chase to prevent the tragedy. But he is to discover that he is not up against a single twisted sociopath but a mysterious network of evil men and women whose resources appear supernatural. Luckily, in this world that Odd finds so beautiful and full of wonders, and deeply odd as well, he meets a collection of like-minded eccentrics who will help him to take the next giant step towards his destiny.
One boy with the power to save the world. One man with the will to destroy it. The chilling, unputdownable new standalone thriller from Dean Koontz, the master of suspense. ‘The master of our darkest dreams’ The Times
