


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…. "Without a doubt, Koontz is America's #1 author of thrillers." -The Denver Post "One of the most important novelists writing today."-National Review "Another gripping novel laced with both high adventure and suspense."-Tucson Citizen "An original and enchanting novel."-Lincoln Journal Star, "Without a doubt, Koontz is America's #1 author of thrillers." - The Denver Post "One of the most important novelists writing today."- National Review "Another gripping novel laced with both high adventure and suspense."- Tucson Citizen "An original and enchanting novel."- Lincoln Journal Star, "Without a doubt, Koontz is America's #1 author of thrillers." - The Denver Post "One of the most important novelists writing today."- National Review "Another gripping novel laced with both high adventure and suspense."- Tucson Citizen "An original and enchanting novel."- Lincoln Journal Star, "Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith.

It is a journey that will leave all who take it Breathless. In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the moment between one turn of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and mystery. Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek toward his destiny. On a Seattle golf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murder. In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable. At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to begin a descent into darkness. A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring to her door all the forces of a government in peril. That night, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to make their approach. In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow into light.
