When Dylan O'Connor, together with his autistic brother Shepherd, pulls into a motel off the interstate highway, all he wants is a good night's sleep. Yet within the hour he finds himself bound, gagged and being injected with a mysterious fluid by a lunatic doctor, who claims Dylan will be the carrier of 'his life's work'.Comedian Jillian Jackson is midway through a tour of seedy venues, accompanied by her pet pot-plant Fred. But her plans for stardom are dramatically altered when she too falls victim to the eccentric scientist.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 before long, they are beginning to wonder if the lunatic doctor wasn't quite so mad after all.

Au clair de lune

Vous avez jusqu'à mercredi minuit. - C'est dingue ! Où est-ce que je dénicherais deux millions de dollars ? - Vous trouverez un moyen. - Ce n'est pas possible. Je ne suis qu'un simple jardinier. Je ne dois pas avoir plus de onze mille dollars à la banque. - Juste pour que vous sachiez que nous ne plaisantons pas... Vous voyez ce type sur le trottoir d'en face ? Mitch pivota, le téléphone toujours à l'oreille, et aperçut un homme marchant avec son chien. La journée ensoleillée avait un éclat de porcelaine. Un coup de fusil déchira le calme et le promeneur au chien s'effondra, touché à la tête. D. K.De son ouverture tendue à son dénouement fracassant, un thriller qui met à cran les nerfs du lecteur... Après tout, il s'agit d'un roman de Dean Koontz. Et l'expérience est sans équivalent.

Le Mari

The stunning first two instalments of Dean Koontz's re-imagining of Frankenstein - including an extract from the final book, The Dead Town.

 Prodigal SonHis name is Deucalion - created centuries ago by a madman, who blessed and cursed him with supernatural powers. Deucalion arrives in New Orleans on the hunt for his evil creator as a murderer preys on innocent victims. Detective Carson O'Connor and her partner track the serial killer, but instead they find the next generation of Dr. Frankenstein's monsters. They are much more, and less, than human - and about to be unleashed on an unsuspecting city.

 City of NightThey are much stronger, heal faster and think faster than any human - and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios - once Dr. Frankenstein - can stop his engineered killers from their reign of terror. The only hope rests with Victor's original 'monster' Deucalion and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison.

 The Dead TownAs the war against humanity rages on, scattered survivors come together in a small Montana town to weather the onslaught. As they make their last stand, humanity's fate hangs in the balance. And Deucalion finally faces his deranged maker in a climax that will shatter every expectation.

Frankenstein Special Edition: Prodigal Son and City of Night

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.  In the little South Californian town of Suavidad Beach, Jeff Coltrane is raising his daughter Amity on his own, ever since his wife Michelle went missing seven years ago. He''s doing a pretty good job of it, and though Amity misses her mom she pours her excess love into her pet mouse Snowball: she''s on a promise for her own puppy if she proves she can take good care of the mouse.  Then one day their itinerant friend Ed - known locally as ''Mr Spooky'' - hands into Jeff''s care a small box containing ''the key to everything'', with the warning that it''s worth around $76 billion, and that he has a demonic posse on his tail searching for it, and that because it''s both so powerful and so valuable, they''ll never give up their quest to get their hands on it. He''ll come back for it in a year: but on no account during that time is Jeff to open the box. Jeff quickly hides it away, which is just as well, since some sinister ''federal'' agents soon turn up on his doorstep, making threats and looking for Ed.  With his beloved wife missing,having the key to everything in his possession proves to be just too much of a temptation for Jeff, and not long afterwards he opens the box and activates the key.  It seems, to begin with, that nothing has changed; but then he starts to notice subtle differences around the house, and outside, the weather has changed and they appear to have different neighbours. Down in the town, everything is a little more shabby. In the park, Amity kicks over some pebbles, before realising they are bloodied teeth. There''s the smell of burning books on the air. And up on the ridgeline overlooking the town, thirteen large crows are perched like the living totems of a clan of malicious wizards...  The screen of the key reads ELSEWHERE 1.13. It offers three options: HOME, SELECT or RETURN.  Somewhere out there in the multiverse, Michelle - adored wife and mother - is still alive. But dare Jeff and Amity - and Snowball - use the key to track her down, with the demonic posse after them and unknown terrors in the other versions of their world?

ELSEWHERE

Heart-stopping supernatural thriller from the master of suspense. Addison Goodheart is not like other people.

 Addison Goodheart lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from a society which will destroy him if he is ever seen.

 Books are his refuge and his escape: he embraces the riches they have to offer. By night he leaves his hidden chambers and, through a network of storm drains and service tunnels, makes his way into the central library.

 And that is where he meets Gwyneth, who, like Addison, also hides her true appearance and struggles to trust anyone.

 But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chance - and nothing less than destiny - has brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast approaching.

Innocence: Part 4, Chapters 59 to 86

A chilling short story prequel to Dean Koontz's forthcoming full-length novel, INNOCENCE. Addison Goodheart is only eight years old, but he already knows he is not like other people.

 Addison Goodheart is a mystery even to himself. He was born in an isolated home surrounded by a deep forest, seeing no one but his mother, who barely accepts him. She is haunted by private demons and keeps many secrets - none of which she dreads more than the young son who adores her.

 Only in the woods, among the wildlife, is Addison truly welcome. Only there can he be at peace. Until the day he first knows terror, the day when his life changes radically and forever.

Wilderness - A short story

The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Relentless.

Breathless

Quatre crimes en deux jours. Bah ! pour jack Dawson, policier new-yorkais, quoi de plus banal? Ce qui l'est moins, c'est que les victimes n'ont été ni poignardées ni abattues mais mordues, griffées à mort. Des bêtes, nul doute, mais lesquelles ? Et venues d'où ? Sur les corps, des milliers de traces sont là - non identifiables.Atroce, dément, surnaturel... mais les flics refusent le surnaturel. Sauf Dawson peut-être, que le hasard a conduit sur la piste d'un étrange Haïtien. La magie noire, le vaudou...Pourquoi rejeter l'hypothèse ? D'autant que l'enquête piétine, que de monstrueuses petites créatures ont surgi, ici et là, que d'autres meurtres pareillement "signés" sont commis, que New York commence à paniquer...

Le Rideau de ténèbres

Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as “America’s most popular suspense novelist”(Rolling Stone) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one #1 New York Times bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to today’s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more.Dylan O’Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He’s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious “doctor,” injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctor’s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shep’s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that they’ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jilly’s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air. Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom they’re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is that’s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place. What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work “by the light of the moon.”By the Light of the Moon is a novel of heart-stopping suspense and transcendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us--a masterwork of the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublime storytelling triumphs throughout.From the Hardcover edition.

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