The Servants Of Twilight
Published: 1984
Author: Dean Koontz (Wrote as Leigh Nichols)
Genre: Contemporary, Cult, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
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Summary
Christine Scavello, a single mother, and her young son Joey are challenged in a mall parking lot by a lunatic who thinks Joey is the Antichrist.
Christine enlists the assistance of private detective Charlie Harrison after a traumatic attack on the family home culminates in the decapitation of her dog. Harrison follows a vehicle that is following Christine back to Grace Spivey, a charismatic old woman who is the leader of The Servants Of Twilight, a fanatical religious cult.
Christine is given bodyguards to defend her, but one of them is slain in an attack by cult members not long after. Christine, Charlie, Joey, and their new dog Chewbacca go on an exhausting cross-country trek to escape the misguided members of "The Twilight".
Spivey's people manage to track them down no matter how far they travel or where they go. It is revealed that this is due to Spivey's ability to see into the future, a skill that also causes her many restless nights.
Following numerous more attacks (including a vehicle bomb and an arson attack), the gang attempts to flee The Twilight's mounting menace by retiring to Charlie's mountain lodge. Charlie falls in love with Christine here, and the two end up sleeping together.
Spivey is certain that Joey is the Antichrist and has frequent visions of the apocalypse for which the youngster is the reason.
Spivey sees her urge to murder the youngster (and everyone else who gets in her way) as a service to humanity, rather than as mad or unfair. Her faith is so powerful that she can garner the support of many significant people of the community, including police officers and Kyle Barlow, a sociopath Spivey had spared from a life of crime.
Charlie's mountain chalet is finally tracked down by the Servants of Twilight. The family gets themselves in a cave on the side of a mountain after a pursuit and further gunfights with heavily armed cult members in a hazardous winter.
They are fatigued, Charlie has a gunshot wound to the shoulder, and Joey suffers a nasty disease, involving hives on his face and an extremely pale complexion, all of which are induced by exposure to extreme cold.
Kyle Barlow knows he has to do the task, but he discovers he lacks the capacity to murder a child, even if Grace believes he is the Antichrist.
Inside the cave, the drama reaches a peak as Spivey and her last remaining aide, Kyle Barlow, begin their descent to kill the kid and prevent the alleged advent of the Antichrist.
Christine is out of energy to fight, and Charlie is barely awake as a result of his gunshot wound.
Grace Spivey places a pistol to Joey's head, making everything appear hopeless. Spivey is ambushed by a swarm of bats just before she pulls the trigger, and she is left for dead.
Christine wonders if her kid may have provoked the assault due to the peculiar behavior of the bats.
The book concludes with the hardship over and Christine and Charlie in a healthy partnership. Charlie's interest in Joey intensifies when the boy's condition clears up rapidly and unexpectedly.
The narrative concludes with Charlie searching for proof in the buried bones of the family's first dog. The burial contains the remains of a different type of dog, which Charlie finds amusing and determines that Joey cannot be the Antichrist.
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