An ally unknown to him is listening. Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the Southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, she's a legend for the risks she'll take to save an animal from abuse.
Among her friends, Amy's heedless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she can't allow herself to return, Amy's behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret. Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew.
He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and the man who stalks him. Winter gripped the city. Terror gripped it, too. They found four corpses in four days, each more hideous than the last. In a city paralyzed by a blizzard, something watches, something stalks. They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm.
One hundred fifty were dead, missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. Then he witnesses a series of disturbing incidents that sweep him into a violent mystery only he can solve, a mystery that will force him to rise above all fears and confront the many-layered secrets of Moonlight Bay and its strange inhabitants.
If our memories make us who we are, who is a man without any? Nameless has only a gun, missions from a shadowy agency, and one dead aim: dispense justice when the law fails.
As he moves from town to town, driven by splintered visions of the past and future, he's headed toward the ultimate confrontation in this propulsive series of short thrillers by number one New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
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. In the void that remains stands his widow, Jane, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered There is no one else to speak for Jane's husband - or the others who have followed him into death at their own hands.
A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. Then David meets Maddison Sutton, beguiling, playful, and keenly aware of all David has lost. But what really takes his breath away is that everything about Maddison, down to her kisses, is just like Emily. Nameless knows only the mission: Directed by the mysterious Ace of Diamonds, he travels the country, turning predators into prey.
Nameless is closing in on a revelatory endgame in this collection of short thrillers from 1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years.
He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not? By: Lee Child. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life.
Cross Lassie with E. A fable about love and trust A breakthrough for Koontz. I don't normally write reviews but this story has left me awestruck. Dean Koontz's greatest work in my opinion.
At the end you will be left with a great hope for the world and a realization of the power of connections made with others, be it humans, dogs, or any other form of life capable of love. In a interview, DK said, "Watchers is the best book I've ever written Watchers is a true masterpiece of fiction.
There's no doubt that this novel will continue to stand the test of time. Eduardo Ballerini's performance is, quite simply, beautiful. Whether the characters are human, monsters, animals, or NSA agents, the life and depth of emotion he brings out in them is unparalleled.
Honestly, i mean its like the author took a big bag of mixed tiles with themes and dramatic situations written on them then selected some blindly from the bag to put into this story. Negative points aside, for the most part the plot moved along well, and each time I found myself getting a little overly bogged down in discourses about niceness, there was usually a plot point, a murder, a sighting of the outsider or a bit of witty banter that reminded me to take notice.
One other reason the latter part of the book felt slower, was that it also tended to involve more generalised preaching, in one case to the detriment of another likable character.
One aspect of the climax was extremely well done, another a severe disappointment. Vince Nasco, despite being quite a legitimate threat for most of the book, suddenly started making stupid mistakes, not the least of which was a sudden urge to monologue to Nora about all his dastardly plans, apparently just because she was so amazingly pretty.
He then completely forgot all his scary hitman skills and was dispatched with surprising ease. All in all Watchers was not a terrible book. Certainly it does not deserve the scorn heaped upon it from some quarters; neither however does it deserve the incandescent praise from others.
Perhaps this is just a reflection of our respective ability to stomach preaching and archetypes, or just a demonstration of my pessimistic English stiff-upper-lipness as opposed to Mrs. Review by Dark. Close sidebar. Buy on Amazon. Browse all BookRags Study Guides. Copyrights Watchers from BookRags. All rights reserved.
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