Pub: Putnam
Price: $22.95
Cover: Don Brautigam
Dean Koontz - Long Fiction - 1993
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Dragon Tears
Pub: Putnam |
| "Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. His partner urged him to surrender to the chaos of life. But Harry believed in order and reason. Then one fateful day, he was forced to shoot a man-and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challenged Harry Lyon's sanity...'Ticktock, ticktock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...' " | |
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Mr. Murder
Pub: Putnam |
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My synopsis: Life was generous with Martin Stillwater. He's not a top-notch writer, yet, but his thrillers and mystery novels are renowned enough to bring him a fair amount of fame and money; his family is a perfect (too perfect?) example of how love should rule in a house and his expectations for the future couldn't be brighter. Yet things are bound to take an uncontrollable swerve onto a path of pure madness as a vicious stranger, who's Marty's astoundingly perfect dead-ringer, breaks one day into the Stillwaters' house. He accuses Marty of stealing his family, his name and his job, and he's got no other purpose than getting his life back. This is only the beginning of a daring escape, in which Marty, his wife Paige and his beloved daughters are forced to play the part of hopeless mice (actually stalked by more than one cat). Their enemy, in fact, seems to have unnatural resilience and recuperative abilities along with an uncanny capacity of tracking his prey. |
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Shadowfires
Pub: Berkley |
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My synopsis: the divorce battle that Rachel is fighting with her bitter husband Eric, as she struggles to get rid of him and the fortune he's built with his research activities, suddenly gets to a halt when Eric gets killed in a horrible car accident. The terrible event delivers her from her husband's obsessions, but also shocks her deeply. Yet the shocks are far from being over, since Rachel finds that her husband's body has disappeared from the morgue, and that she's being stalked by someone that looks just like Eric. |
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Trapped
Pub: Eclipse Books |
| "In the midst of a snowstorm, young widow Meg Lassiter is trying to get home. At the Lassiter farmhouse uninvited mutant rats are waiting. These rats are not just seeking shelter, warmth, and food. They're seeking the annihilation of any human who crosses their path. Meg must find the strength and courage to face the genetically enhanced rats. Trapped in her snowbound home, armed with only a shotgun and the desire to survive, Meg wages a one-woman war against creatures scientifically engineered to outwit, outrun, and outfight the human race." | |