What the Night Knows
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.47 (796 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1501240684 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-07-26 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In the Calvinos, Dean Koontz brings to life a family that might be your own, in a war for their survival against an adversary more malevolent than any he has yet created, with their own home the battleground. And he's appeared three times. I don't know what to make of that. In college, my therapy was all-night pinochle tournaments. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. In spite of all his physical and mental strangenesses, I would not be surprised to see him one evening, walking along a lonely highway or perhaps standing under a lamppost across the street, still a
"Possibly the worst book I've ever read by Dean Koontz" according to Fred T Coffman. Possibly the worst book I've ever read by Dean Koontz. Slow, sluggish, a very hard read. I kept reading just to see if it would get better. I finally finished it and the end of the book is as stupid as the rest of the book. I'm now reading one of those Odd Thomas . Had me a fan at the beginning, but After purchasing the eBook, and (unfortunately) missing the cutoff for being able to return it, if I hadn't read a review somewhere that'd mentioned there was a huge supernatural element constructing this novel (reason for wanting to return), I wouldn't have known. "The Plastic Family Meets The Psychotic" according to Ken T.. This book starts well, then becomes less so. On one side the journals of the psycho are chilling & very good The protagonist's involvement with the killer at a mental hospital and the scene surrounding the first murdered family are spot on. However the story chang
In the Calvinos, Dean Koontz brings to life a family that might be your own, in a war for their survival against an adversary more malevolent than any he has yet created, with their own home the battleground. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family—his wife and three children—will be targets in the fourth crime, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer.As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return.Here is a ghost story like no other you have read. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four families. Of all his acclaimed novels, none exceeds What the Night Knows in power, in chilling suspense, and in sheer mesmerizing storytelling.“Dea