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Top Koontz Books 2
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Fear Nothing (Paperback) December 1, 1998
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Koontz gives Snow and Bobby a lingo that does for
surfer talk what Austin Powers did for the Swinging '60s, and his
metaphors are almost as madcap as Tom Robbins's: "As the chains of the
swinging light fixture torqued, the links twisted against one another
with enough friction to cause an eerie ringing, as if lizard-eyed altar
boys in blood-soaked cassocks and surplices were ringing the unmelodious
bells of a satanic mass." Sometimes Koontz's style goes over the top and
wipes out, surfer-style, but for the most part, Fear Nothing will
have readers bellowing "Cowabunga!" |
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The Key to Midnight (Paperback) June 1, 1995 |
This is one of Koontz's better mysteries. |
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Phantoms (Paperback) February 5, 2002 |
A classic thriller from Dean Koontz--and the basis
for the motion picture starring Peter O'Toole... |
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From the Corner of His Eye (Paperback) November 20, 2001 |
Horrormeister Koontz looks heavenward for inspiration in his newest suspense thriller, which is chock-full of signs, portents, angels, and one somewhat second-rate devil, a murky and undercharacterized guy named Junior Cain who throws his beloved wife off a fire tower on an Oregon mountain and spends the rest of the novel waiting for the retribution that will surely come. But not before a series of tragedies ensues that convince Junior that someone or something named Bartholomew is out to exact vengeance for that crime and the series of other murders that follow. |
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Cold Fire (Paperback) December 7, 2004 |
On an impulse, schoolteacher Jim Ironheart flies to Portland, Oregon without understanding why. There he saves a boy from being killed by a drunk driver and is observed by Holly Thorne. She tracks Jim to California, and
their lives intertwine on one of Jim's lifesaving missions. Surviving a
plane crash, terrifying monsters that materialize from Holly's
nightmares, and an uncannily powerful adversary, they search for the
source of Jim's psychic power. |
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By the Light of the Moon (Paperback) November 4, 2003 |
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.
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Lightning (Paperback) September 2, 2003 |
On the night of Laura Shane's birth, a stranger
appears from the lightning to prevent her delivery's being botched by an
alcoholic physician. Throughout Laura's childhood the stranger reappears
at times of danger. He protects rather than threatens, yet menace seems
to follow him. Thirty years later another storm flashes and the stranger
collapses, shot, at Laura's door. Now Laura protects her erstwhile
guardian from mysterious hunters. He reveals that he and the hunters are
time travelers. Laura, quick-witted and brave, leads the way to a bloody
showdown. The paradox in time travel's tampering with history provides
an interesting twist in this gripping thriller by a popular writer. |
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One Door Away from Heaven (Paperback) October 29, 2002 |
Dean Koontz virtually invented the cross-genre
novel, and in One Door Away from Heaven he mixes an action
thriller with post-X-Files alien paranoia to remarkable effect.
Micky Bellsong is a young woman at a crisis point in her life, using a
stay at her Aunt Geneva's to sort things out. Then the precocious and
deformed Leilani Klonk walks into her life, telling stories of her
stepfather and drugged-up mother, who believe aliens will beam the girl
into their mothership and heal her deformities before her 10th birthday.
But tales of the stepfather's vicious past, including his hand in
several murders, leave Micky believing that a far more terrible fate
awaits her friend. So when the parents take off with Leilani, Micky
pursues. |
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Night Chills (Paperback) April 1996 |
This is a very good early book written by
Dean R.Koontz about the potential dangers of Subliminal Advertising and Mind
Control. The inhabitants of a small Rural Town become brainwashed by
Government Agents and this Geek Scientist as a "Test Case" for future
development. |
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False Memory (Paperback) November 28, 2000 |
It's a fear more paralyzing than falling. More
terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can
imagine. It's the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you
run...no matter where you hide. It's the fear of yourself. It's real. It
can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly. Fear for your mind. |
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