Helpful Score: 2
Thriller writer Martin Stillwater, though not at the top of his game, makes enough money and has enough fame to satisfy himself. He's got a good life, is in love with his wife and he adores his children. His future looks bright. Then a stranger, who happens to be Marty's dead ringer, shows up and accuses Marty of stealing his life and he wants it back.
And that's just the beginning of the book. However, as much as I absolutely love Dean Koontz, this one didn't hold me enthralled the way most of his others have done. I was actually able to put it down to check my e-mail and I didn't pick it back up till the next day. Not a good sign for a Koontz book. However, like all his work, it was an excellent story that scared me plenty.
And that's just the beginning of the book. However, as much as I absolutely love Dean Koontz, this one didn't hold me enthralled the way most of his others have done. I was actually able to put it down to check my e-mail and I didn't pick it back up till the next day. Not a good sign for a Koontz book. However, like all his work, it was an excellent story that scared me plenty.
Helpful Score: 2
VERY GOOD BOOK !!! Will keep you up late at night telling yourself "just one more page" !!!
Helpful Score: 1
In typical Dean Koontz fashion, this book was twisted but very well written. Not a horror book per se but kind of a cross between mystery and sci-fi.
An organization run by the rich and well-connected are murdering those who need murdering (from their point of view which is decidedly skewed.) The group develop a clone that is trained to be an assassin with no remorse. Of course, this assassin goes off his program and runs amok. The book details his adventures and the organizations efforts to find and restrain the clone.
I listened to this audiobook in my car and they many voices and inflections used in the reading really made for an enjoyable tale
An organization run by the rich and well-connected are murdering those who need murdering (from their point of view which is decidedly skewed.) The group develop a clone that is trained to be an assassin with no remorse. Of course, this assassin goes off his program and runs amok. The book details his adventures and the organizations efforts to find and restrain the clone.
I listened to this audiobook in my car and they many voices and inflections used in the reading really made for an enjoyable tale
Helpful Score: 1
Interesting version of government cloning of humans...a very scary and real thing/possibilty. Good story line and characters that lighten up that heavy storeline. On the lighter fun side, the main character is a writer who has an on-going story time with his Christmas poem/story for his girls...love the "Santa's Evil Twin" that he refers to/goes back to throughout the book...creative and suspensiveful.
good book, however, the story follows stephen king's The Dark Half so closely, its hard to believe its a coincidence.
