Breathless Dean Koontz | ISBN : 0-7393-2865-4

Breathless

Author: Dean Koontz

Publisher: Random House Large Print

Publication Date: 24 November, 2009

ISBN: 9780739328651

Pages: 448

Subjects: Mystery, Action and adventure, Suspense

Available as: Trade Cloth, 978-0-553-80715-8 Trade Paper, 978-0-7393-2865-1

Description:

“Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular fiction to explore the human condition.” —USA Today “Koontz’s books always thrill…. [He’s] so good, he’ll have readers holding their breath on one page and tearing up on the next.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Koontz is at the top of his game...both a great storyteller and a novelist of ideas…one of the most important novelists writing today.” —National Review From the Hardcover edition.

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 2009-11-02

Bestseller Koontz (Relentless) delivers a hard-to-classify stand-alone set near the Rocky Mountains that will appeal more to fans of his Odd Thomas books than those partial to his Hitchcockian thrillers. While out for a walk, reclusive Grady Adams and his wolfhound, Merlin, spot two white furry animals "as large as midsize dogs" and "as quick and limber as cats" that aren't like anything previously known to science. The sudden arrival of these mysterious creatures out of the blue appears to be linked to several other baffling phenomena. Meanwhile, a sadist, Henry Rouvroy, tracks down his identical twin, James, and kills him and James's wife in order to assume his brother's identity. After the murders, Rouvroy is unsettled by evidence that the dead have not stayed dead. Koontz's cryptic dedication to Aesop ("twenty-six centuries late and with apologies for the length") may hold the key to what's going on, but readers are likely to find the moral of this peculiar tale, if there is one, obscure. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved