One Door Away from Heaven Summary

One Door Away from Heaven

Published: 2001

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Action, Adventure, Conspiracy, Fiction, First Contact, Literary, Literature, Mystery, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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One Door Away from Heaven

Summary

A shape-shifting extraterrestrial, along with others of his kind, has arrived on Earth to save us from ourselves. 

After seeing his whole family slaughtered by wicked aliens focused on stopping him, he embarks on a cross-country quest to save himself. 

He stops in the middle of the night at a farmhouse to "borrow" some cash and supplies and finds a sleeping youngster his age. He is able to "become" Curtis Hammond, the boy's exact replica, using a drop of blood from an old bandage. 

The terrible aliens arrive seconds after he leaves the house and slaughter the family, leaving just the dog alive. Curtis and the dog escape and wind up at the site of an extraterrestrial sighting. 

Castoria and Polluxia Spelkenfelter, twin UFO enthusiasts, know Curtis from news coverage of his murder and resolve to assist him. He eventually confesses his actual nature to them, and they promise to help him finish the assignment he has come to Earth to perform. 

The twins, boy, and dog set off together towards Nun's Lake, Idaho, the next place on the twins' schedule while they determine what to do next.

Michelina (Mickey) Bellsong was just released from jail. She has moved in with her Aunt Geneva to start again, but things aren't going as planned. She is adrift and aimless, simply trying to get through the day. 

A clever but crippled little girl approaches her as she is sunbathing in the backyard. Leilani Klonk has a malformed hand and a misshapen leg that necessitates the use of a brace. She is smarter and more talkative than the usual nine-year-old, and her wit charms Mickey. 

Mickey and Geneva get to know the youngster and discover that her mother is a psychotic drug user and her stepfather is a killer. He murdered her older brother Lukipela, and Leilani is the next victim. 

Leilani feels that no one can assist her since Preston Maddoc is well-regarded in the academic community. Preston and Leilani's mother, Sinsemilla, travel throughout the country hunting for UFOs, and Leilani knows it's just a matter of time until they return to Montana, where Preston murdered her brother Lukipela. 

Mickey and Geneva resolve to find a method to assist Leilani, but Preston discovers this and flees with the family in the middle of the night. 

Mickey realizes that they have vanished and sets out to find them in order to save Leilani. Leilani had said that they are heading to Nun's Lake, Idaho, the location of a rumored close contact, and Mickey rushes to the town in order to discover the girl. 

Mickey comes and proceeds to talk with the man who was "healed" by aliens, only to discover that Leilani's step-father hasn't arrived yet. She searches the home for Preston and follows him to Leilani. 

Preston is alerted to her existence by the cured man, whom he murders. He slips out of the home and approaches Mickey, knocking her out. He drags her into the deceased man's house and binds her up before speeding back to the campsite. 

Curtis meets Leilani at the Nun's Lake campsite and realizes she's in trouble. While Preston is away, he and the twins approach her and persuade her to accompany them. 

Leilani is kidnapped by her stepfather and taken to the home where he has concealed Mickey as they rush for the twins' RV. 

His objective is to have Leilani witness him kill Mickey before torturing and killing her. When he returns home, he sees that Mickey has escaped her chains. He ditches Leilani, takes her brace and begins looking through the maze of old periodicals and newspapers for Mickey. 

Leilani enters the maze in search of a route out, where she and Mickey meet. Preston corners them and sets fire to the newspapers in front of them, intending to listen as they burn to death. 

Curtis and the twins arrive at the residence, helped by a disillusioned ex-PI sent by Aunt Gen. The PI, Noah Farrell, shoots Preston Maddoc as he speeds through the maze looking for Mickey and Leilani. 

Preston staggers away, becoming increasingly dizzy from blood loss and smoke inhalation. Noah and Cass locate Mickey and Leilani, and the four of them look for a way out. 

Curtis appears in his normal form to save them, and they all flee the home. Preston Maddoc is killed after he gets buried behind a mound of flaming rubbish.

Leilani, Mickey, Aunt Gen, and Noah join Cass and Polly in their attempt to assist Curtis in completing the assignment that has been assigned to him.

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Sole Survivor Summary

Sole Survivor

Published: 1997

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Assassination, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Media Tie-In, Occult, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Sole Survivor

Summary

Joe Carpenter is the protagonist of the tale, having lost his wife and two kids in an aircraft disaster the previous year. Joe has never really recovered from their deaths, and on the one-year anniversary, he encounters a strange lady named Rose, who claims to be a survivor of the accident despite the fact that none were recorded. 

Rose says she'll tell Joe the truth, but not yet. Finally admitting that the crash narrative never made sense to him, Joe continues his search for information about what actually happened that night, learning that others may be interested in stopping him even if it meant sacrificing his life.

There have been a great number of suicides among the families of the accident victims, which leads Joe to believe that Rose is somehow convincing them to commit suicide by showing them an image of a cemetery. 

This leads him to a development involving his deceased daughter and a laboratory produced girl, CCY 21–21, with healing skills that resemble his daughter and want to live the life she was unable to enjoy. 

This girl has the ability to heal and provide hope to everybody she comes into contact with. Her sole flaw is that she cannot cure herself if she is injured.

Rose had been protecting this girl until her healing abilities and full potential evolved until Rose was shot by agents aiming to murder her and the kid. 

SSW-89-58, another experiment, has the ability to telepathically perceive and know things by gazing at photos of areas, as well as manipulating the minds of living organisms in that region. 

As it turns out, the plane accident was part of a plot to assassinate Rose since she had smuggled CCY 21–21 out of the complex. SSW-89-58 was obliged to take control of the pilot in order to murder everyone on board.

The plane crashed, but the girl and Rose managed to escape and are now on the run. Joe escapes with Nina and goes underground towards the end of the story (CCY 21-21). Rose was shot and perishes in the last storm.

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Icebound Summary

Icebound

Published: 1995

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as David Axton)

Genre: Adventure, American, Assassination, Contemporary, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Psychological, Science Fiction, Suspense, Teen, Terrorism, Thriller, Young Adult

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Icebound

Summary

The narrative revolves around a group of multinational scientists who are working on a project to tow an iceberg to be used as drought relief. 

It is led by Rita and Harold (Harry) Carpenter, a husband and wife partnership. Rita is secretly terrified of the cold, ice, and snow. 

The scientists become stuck on the iceberg due to a sudden storm, with explosives ticking beneath them. 

They will perish if they do not find a way out. A Russian submarine is attempting to save them, but the operation is hampered by ice. Meanwhile, another issue has arisen. One of the team members is a covert assassin with his own purpose.

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Mr. Murder Summary

Mr. Murder

Published: 1993

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Ghost, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Mr. Murder

Summary

Marty Stillwater, a best-selling mystery writer, was recording himself one day when he discovered he kept saying "I need..." over and over again. When he rewound the tape, he discovered that he had been mindlessly repeating "I need" for more than 7 minutes. Marty was nervous the entire day, but as he put the kids to bed, he cooled down and was finally calmed.

Meanwhile, the Killer is out and about before his shift. He enters the pub and walks out with a prostitute to a hotel. He has sex with her and then murders her since she is unable to relieve his rage. He kills his targets and returns to his hotel. That night, still restless, he feels pulled to Topeka for some reason. Suddenly, he begins to say:

"I must... be... I have to be... I have to be..." As the suburbs and, eventually, the dark plains speed by on both sides, his enthusiasm grows gradually. He trembles on the verge of an epiphany that, he believes, will transform his life. "I must be... to be... I feel the urge to be someone." He immediately grasps the significance of what he has spoken. He does not mean what another guy may mean by those three words; he does not imply that he has to be someone famous, wealthy, or significant. Just one person. Someone who has a legitimate name just an ordinary Joe, as they used to say in 1940s movies.

— Mr. Murder, pp. 48-49 (the above paragraph is from the book but I changed the way it is in the book to be safe from the Copywrite issues)

The Killer is drawn to the Stillwater mansion like a magnet by an unknown power. On his route, he murders many people, including an elderly couple for a pair of clothes and a gas station employee for food and money. 

When he breaks into the Stillwater home, he discovers a photograph of Marty and thinks it's him. He notices Marty's books and decides they are his. He views images of Emily and Charlotte, as well as Marty's wife Paige, and decides he wants to be the father and husband. He tries to write a book but is unable to do it, so he breaks the computer in fury. 

Marty was concerned about his fugues (a lapse in recollection) and decided to consult a doctor. The doctor blamed it on stress. When Marty returns home, he discovers that his belongings have been missing and his computer has been shattered. 

The Other then enters and accuses him of forgery. Marty shoots him twice in the chest in response, but The Other seems unmoved. The battle catapults them over the banisters, injuring The Other but allowing him to flee. 

Marty's family arrives home, and Marty directs them to their next-door neighbor's home. The cops come soon after. The investigator, Cyrus Lowbock, interrogates Marty and doubts his account, implying it is a publicity ploy. Marty and his wife refuse to comply, so the cops go.

The Other's body has recovered quickly from his injuries, but the exertion has left him hungry. He returns after devouring copious amounts of food to reclaim Paige and the girls from Marty, whom he believes has taken them. He "rescues" the daughters from the neighbor's house, but Marty spots him and pursues him. The car smashes, and the girls flee, but the Killer disappears once again.

Drew Oslett and Karl Clocker, two operatives from a shadowy government agency, are dispatched to find the Killer (referred to as "Alfie") they find the bodies of the two seniors as well as Alfie's tracking gadget. 

A note from their agency directs them to a People magazine article about Marty Stillwater, where they learn of his link to the Killer. 

They encounter someone who might be able to assist them find Alfie. To keep their cover, they determine that the Stillwaters must be murdered/suicide, and Alfie must be brought in.

Meanwhile, the Stillwaters retreat to a cabin in Mammoth Lakes to prepare for an attack by The Other. Paige hides beneath a boulder to ambush The Other, but he unexpectedly drives through the cottage. 

After that, the Stillwaters retreat to an abandoned church. Marty has been shot, and Paige and the girls are imprisoned. 

Drew and Karl seek down The Other as he prepares to murder them. Drew murders The Other, only to be murdered by Karl, who has turned against the agency. He saves the Stillwaters and gives them new identities, a new house, and proof to bring down the agency. 

He says that cloning and genetic engineering were utilized to produce a breed of elite killers, with Marty's tissue samples inadvertently being used in the creation of Alfie. Marty submits the proof to the authorities under an unknown name after a few months, and the Stillwaters begin their new lives.

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Cold Fire Summary

Cold Fire

Published: 1991

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Psychic, Psychological, Romance, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Cold Fire

Summary

Jim Ironheart, a recently retired teacher, puts his life in danger to help others. In Portland, he rescues a small kid from an inattentive drunk driver in a van. He saves a toddler from an underground explosion in Boston. He disarms a guy in Houston who was attempting to shoot his own wife – and he isn't just lucky to be in the right location at the right time. He receives "inspiration" and knows he needs to go somewhere quickly. 

To the amazement of people around him, he hurries off to call a cab or board a plane, abandoning whatever he's doing at the time. He has no idea where or why these visions occur, but he feels he must be a God-sent guardian angel with a celestial ability.

Holly Thorne, a reporter, was in Portland to write a dull story on a school teacher who had produced a book of poetry full of poems Holly believes to be pure transcendental rubbish - but such is Holly's lot in life. 

She is a terrific writer, but she is failing as a reporter because she has too much ethics and compassion. As she walks away, she sees Jim rescue the child from the drunk driver and notices something fishy about Jim's statements of how he began rushing for the child before seeing or hearing the vehicle approaching. 

She finds that a mystery good Samaritan called Jim with blue eyes has performed 12 last-minute rescues in different newspapers during the previous three months.

Holly is drawn to Jim and his intense but chilly blue eyes — eyes that burn with a passionate, cold fire, hence the title of the tale.

Holly agrees to accompany this humble yet enigmatic savior on his next "mission." Unbeknownst to Jim, she rushes to the airport and joins a United Airlines DC-10 flight heading for Chicago. 

She goes to face him and discovers Jim's weird yet incredible abilities. Jim informs her that he has been sent by God to save a woman and a kid on the plane - he has no idea why God has selected these two in particular, but he does know that they must swap seats or they will perish in the awful plane accident of which he has seen a vision. 

Holly is impressed by Jim's notion that he possesses some mystical power bestowed upon him by God.

Holly takes a more skeptical approach, arguing how silly such notions are. She wonders why "God" would choose to save these two people while killing 151 other passengers, as Jim predicted. There must be much more deserving individuals on board, and why would God allow the plane to crash at all? Holly encourages Jim to do more than simply inform the couple to relocate, but to notify the pilot and maybe rescue everyone on board. 

Jim first resists, and he is adamant about not questioning his visions. He just informs Holly that God sends him and that he solely follows the instructions - anything else would be going against God's plan. 

Who else, he wonders, could be sending him visions to save lives just in time? Holly talks him down and assures him that there is no reason for Jim (or God) to let someone die in vain. 

The plane, however, is beyond repair and crashes, reducing the number of deaths from 151 to 47.

Holly is able to earn Jim's trust after the tragedy. They are drawn to each other, but Holly is intrigued by Jim's unusual visions. She intends to find out how, why, and who, just as any reporter would. 

However, the more she probes, the stranger things get. Almost all of Jim's childhood memories are gone, save for the fact that his parents died when he was nine at his grandparents' ranch. He just has hazy memories of his youth and becomes irritated when Holly asks him. 

She realizes that his odd skills are related to his childhood and the absence of memory from that time. For numerous nights, she hears him mumble in his sleep, "There is an Enemy. It is on its way. It's going to kill us all. It is unrelenting." 

She and Jim begin to have identical terrifying nightmares surrounding the old mill from his grandparents' ranch, and during one of these "nightmares," they are both fully conscious and fighting some eerie force coming at them from the walls and ceiling – needless to say, they are convinced the force behind it all is neither God nor benign.

Holly certainly thinks they must return to the ranch to locate the cause of everything, despite her terror of what they may discover. Jim is first hesitant, but as they get closer to the ranch, he becomes increasingly persuaded that the entity is something truly big and strong — something not of this world.

Once inside the scary tower chamber of the windmill, the alien emerges from the neighboring pond, first through noises similar to church bells and then through a captivating show of swirling colors and bursting lights. 

The creature then begins to materialize as a voice by magically using a pen and paper to make words appear. It introduces itself as THE FRIEND from ANOTHER WORLD. When asked why, it responds, "TO OBSERVE, STUDY, AND ASSIST MANKIND." 

Holly questions why it assaulted them the night before, to which THE FRIEND responds that it was the work of its opposite half, THE ENEMY. 

When queried about the bells and lights, it responds, "FOR DRAMA?" When Holly starts asking questions as to why certain individuals are selected but not many others, THE FRIEND reveals that someone will solve all deadly diseases, another will become a fine leader, someone else will become an incredible spiritual leader, and on and on. 

While Jim is overjoyed, Holly cannot trust the answers since they do not make logical sense and appear banal, fanciful, and infantile to her. 

While Jim is out of the room, Holly asks THE FRIEND probing questions about him. All of the responses are too predictable to accept, and it ultimately responds to her pestering with threats, and then, most surprisingly, with the words "I," "MY," and "ME." 

At that point, it is determined that Jim is the source of both THE FRIEND and THE ENEMY, that it is he, not God or some foreign entity, who is generating the nightmares. 

After Jim's parents died, he got infatuated with a novel about an extraterrestrial in a pond close to a windmill – so enthralled that the youngster never grew up until one day, an adult-in-body Jim moved away and began a purportedly regular life. 

Holly assists Jim in dealing with his past, and the two embark on a new life together.

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Midnight Summary

Midnight

Published: 1989

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Horror, Literature, Political, Science Fiction, Spy, Suspense, Thriller

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Midnight

Summary

Janice Capshaw, a midnight runner, is followed and slain by a gang of enigmatic, horrific animals while running along the beach in her northern California hometown of Moonlight Cove. 

Sam Booker, an undercover FBI agent, arrives in Moonlight Cove to investigate a string of mysterious deaths, including Janice Capshaw's. 

Tessa Jane Lockland, Janice Capshaw's sister, also arrives at Moonlight Cove to investigate her sister's unsolved death.

Chrissie Foster, an eleven-year-old girl who lives on a farm north of town, finds her parents in a physically transformed state - half-human and part beast - and is compelled to leave for her survival. 

She makes her way to town in search of assistance. The unknown animals are hunting Sam, Tessa, and Chrissie separately. 

Sam and Tessa happen to meet at a Laundromat, where they had both sought refuge after being followed by the animals. They are first distrustful of one another, but they learn that in order to survive, they must work together.

Sam learns that Thomas Shaddack, a great computer scientist, is transforming the people of Moonlight Cove into something unknown. Sam also discovers that the local police are assisting Shaddack with the conversions and that their cutting-edge computer system, provided by Shaddack's business, is overly sophisticated for the demands of a small-town police department. 

Because of a letter written to the FBI by Moonlight Cove resident Harry Talbot providing information on recent distressing happenings, Sam and Tessa decide to visit Harry at his home. 

Harry is a Vietnam veteran who was severely injured during the conflict and now uses a wheelchair. He is not yet 'converted.' Harry has learned a lot about what is going on since he spends much of his time monitoring the residents of Moonlight Cove via his telescope, and he also discovers that the local police are participating. 

Chrissie also ends herself at Harry Talbot's when her effort to visit the local church results in her having to dodge the animals once more, and she makes the rational decision that Harry could be a safe person to approach.

Together, the four characters are able to put together a more complete picture of what is going on at Moonlight Cove. 

Thomas Shaddack has developed a method for transforming a person into a super-human who is immune to disease, injury, exhaustion, or emotion. However, the conversion has an unintended consequence. Life becomes intolerably pointless without the ability to experience human emotions, and the majority of newly converted villagers revert irreversibly into a beast condition, concerned solely with hunting, murdering, and digesting their victims. 

Shaddack's mental state worsens as events unfold. He refuses to admit that his ideas have failed miserably and that the conversions should be halted. 

When the Chief of Police, Loman Watkins, realizes that nothing can stop the town's spiral into mayhem, he pledges to murder Shaddack, which will instantaneously kill every converted person in the village. 

Shaddack has implanted a microchip in each individual as part of the 'conversions,' which will murder them along with Shaddack if his heart stops beating.

The climactic fight occurs in the local high school when Sam goes there to use a school computer terminal to send a warning to the outside world and solicit help. 

Shaddack is slain in the confrontation, which also kills the majority of the inhabitants. The FBI arrives to clean up the wreckage after Sam, Tessa, and Chrissie survive.

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Lightning Summary

Lightning

Published: 1988

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Literary, Literature, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller, Time Travel

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Lightning

Summary

A mystery blond stranger (Stefan) prevents an inebriated Dr. Paul Markwell from attending to the difficult and delicate birth of Laura Shane in January 1955, amid a bizarre lightning storm. 

Laura's mother dies after childbirth, despite the fact that she is a perfectly healthy and wonderfully beautiful baby, and she is left to be raised by her father, Bob Shane. 

An addict tries to steal Laura's father's convenience store when she is eight years old; however, the blond stranger reappears, protecting them both and coaching them on what to tell the cops. 

Bob Shane dies after a heart attack in 1967. Laura sees the stranger looking over her again after her father's burial and comes to believe he is her guardian angel, along with an unidentified guy asking for her as she attempts to follow him.

Laura is placed in the McIlroy orphanage, where she meets Thelma and Ruth, twins who become her greatest friends. She also encounters Willy Sheener, a terrifying child molester who also works as the maintenance worker and custodian. 

Willy falls in love with Laura because of her unusually excellent looks and follows her throughout the orphanage. 

Following a series of strange episodes, her mystery angel pays a visit to Sheener and viciously beats him. This frightens him for a while until Laura is sent to live with the Dockwielers, with whom she soon bonds. 

Laura is able to fend off Sheener and finally murder him, but the stress of seeing the scene leads her new foster mother to have a fatal heart attack, sending Laura back to the orphanage. 

Soon later, Laura becomes 13 and is sent to another institution for older children, where she learns that Ruth was killed in a fire in McIlroy. 

Laura's creative writing at college catches the notice of Danny, a naïve man who has fallen in love with her from afar. Following a failed attempt to be her secret admirer, they agree to a date and eventually fall in love. 

Laura becomes a well-known author of numerous novels after their marriage and gives birth to a son, Christopher Robert. Because the birth was challenging, she will be unable to have children in the future.

Years later, the blond man's (eventually revealed to be named Stefan) intervention saves Danny, Laura, and Chris from a tragic disaster. 

A little time later, the unidentified man appears. Danny and the blond guy both attack, but Danny dies from multiple gunshot wounds before Stefan kills the man and tells Laura what to say, just like years before at the grocery store. 

He vows to return soon and tell more, but he doesn't return until a year later, injured, in a remote stretch of winter woods. Laura and Chris are able to heal him at a doctor they find in the phone book, but they soon face mysterious assassins.

The gang seeks refuge at a modest hotel. Stefan regains consciousness and eventually reveals his story. He was 35 years old when he was born in 1909. He is from Nazi Germany in 1944, and he is a member of a covert time travel program that sends spies to the future to discover methods to affect the result of World War II. 

Stefan had already arrived in an alternate version of 1984 and had met Laura, who was paralyzed as a result of Dr. Markwell's inebriated mistakes during her birth. Despite her infirmity, she created wonderful poetry volumes that encouraged Stefan to abandon his objective and travel to unpleasant portions of her life in order to alter them. His commander, however, became suspicious of him and pursued him, sending the assassins into the future to learn of their course.

They obtain numerous items they require with the assistance of Thelma, who has grown wealthy as a comedienne and actress after her sister's death. 

Fat Jack, an arms dealer, provides them with weapons as well as Vexxon nerve gas. Stefan is ready to travel back in time with the help of contemporary computing technology. He kills the five guys on duty at the moment with the nerve gas and disposes of their remains six billion years later. He jumps to visit Winston Churchill and tells him that the time machine institution must be attacked; Churchill agrees. 

Stefan also travels to Adolf Hitler to persuade the dictator of different issues that must be resolved, damaging the German war effort in the process.

While he is gone, Laura and Chris are ambushed by additional Nazis in an empty piece of the rain-washed desert after records of a police stop are uncovered. 

Stefan returns to discover Laura and Chris dead. He gets around the machine's time limit by sending Laura a message to save them. Despite this, Chris and Laura must face all four guys. The second cylinder of nerve gas becomes useful. Laura finally kills all four guys chasing them while protecting Chris to the best of her ability. 

Laura and Chris are questioned by the authorities over the course of many months. They quickly believe a narrative about 'drug traffickers' seeking vengeance. Laura backs up her claim by turning Fat Jack over, which she was about to do anyway (he does not blame her, due to his personal beliefs). 

Stefan, who had been hiding with Thelma, returns to live with them. Laura eventually falls in love with him after giving him more time.

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Watchers Summary

Watchers

Published: February 1987

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Animals, Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Ghost, Hard Science, Horror, Literature, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

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Watchers

Summary

Travis Cornell, a former Delta Force operative, is exploring a canyon near his house when he comes across two genetically produced animals that have escaped from a top-secret government facility. 

Travis is befriended by one, a Golden Retriever with heightened intellect, while the other, an entity known as the Outsider, appears to be attempting to murder the dog. 

Travis brings the puppy home after avoiding the Outsider. When he discovers the dog's extraordinary intelligence, he calls him Einstein.

Later, he and Einstein discover and rescue Nora Devon in a park from a violent guy named Arthur Streck. 

They create a trio when they come together. Travis, Nora, and Einstein are soon on the run not only from the Outsider but also from federal agents determined to find the laboratory escapees and Vince Nasco, a ruthless professional assassin hired by the Soviets to kill several human targets carrying the knowledge of how to stop the Outsider, in order to further the Outsider's destruction. 

He wants the dog to trade for a large quantity of money on his own, without the knowledge of the Soviets or anyone.

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Strangers Summary

Strangers

Published: 1986

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Conspiracy, Depression, Fiction, First Contact, Horror, Literary, Mental Health, Psychological, Science Fiction, Superhero, Suspense, Teen, Thriller, Young Adult

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Strangers

Summary

A group of people is pulled together by their various and equally bizarre illnesses. Dominick has somnambulism, Ginger has unexplained lapses into a fugue state, Father Brendan loses his faith and then has a supernatural 'gift,' and Ernie has nyctophobia.

Dominick receives Polaroids that lead him to the Tranquility Motel, which is located thirty miles west of Elko in the Nevada 'high desert.' 

They realize, along with Ned and Sandy, who owns the restaurant next door to the motel, that their genuine memories from the previous summer may have been buried. 

Ginger, Jorja, and the other guests at the Tranquility Motel are later contacted and offered to join the organization. 

Ginger reveals that Azrael Blocks, a form of brainwashing generated by medications and hypnosis, inhibit their memories. She underwent hypnosis as a treatment to determine the origin of her illness.

The 'community' of Tranquility is unaware that those behind the repression are observing them. 

Jack Twist has joined them (who was led to the Tranquility Motel by a series of postcards placed there by an insider). 

Finally, the gang devises a plan to discover the government secret concealed in the hills at the Thunder Hill Depository.

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The Door to December Summary

The Door to December

Published: 1985

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Richard Paige)

Genre: Contemporary, Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Horror, Kidnapping, Literature, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Teen, Thriller, Young Adult

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The Door to December

Summary

Laura McCaffrey is summoned to aid in the investigation when a pair of prominent psychiatrists are brutally killed for reasons unknown. 

When she meets with Dan Haldane, a police lieutenant, she learns that one of the victims was her divorced husband, Dylan, who stole their only daughter six years earlier. 

Police alert Lieutenant Haldane of a nude young girl strolling the streets of Los Angeles in a trance while inside the crime scene. 

Melanie McCaffrey, Laura's daughter, turned out to be the girl. She was discovered in a catatonic, autistic state and is being treated in the hospital. 

Dylan was clearly employing his only kid in a series of experiments that mixed science and the occult. Unfortunately, it has had unforeseen and fatal repercussions.

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Phantoms Summary

Phantoms

Published: March 1983

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Contemporary, Crime, Drama, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Rural, Science Fiction, Small Town, Suspense, Thriller

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Phantoms

Summary

Jenny and Lisa Paige, two sisters, return to Jenny's homeland of Snowfield, California, a tiny ski resort community hidden in the Sierra Nevada Mountains where Jenny works as a doctor, only to discover that no one is alive. 

The few bodies they discover have been mangled or reflect some unusual way of death. Jenny eventually calls authorities from a neighboring town for assistance after becoming increasingly concerned about the community's unusual and scary predicament.

The girls and the authorities, commanded by Sheriff Bryce Hammond, might request assistance from the military Biological Investigations Unit. 

Only one clue as to what was causing the town's disappearances and fatalities was discovered by the police. 

A victim of whatever was attempting to murder him managed to write Timothy Flyte's name on a mirror just before he was slain. Flyte is a British professor who wrote The Ancient Enemy. His book records and describes the mass disappearances of individuals throughout history in various places of the world.

It is revealed that the settlement was constructed over the hibernation grounds of one such Enemy, an amoeboid shapeshifter. This Ancient Enemy feeds seldom, but when it does, the consequences are disastrous. 

The Enemy was said to have caused or facilitated the extinction of the dinosaurs, as well as many of the big enigmatic mass vanishings: Mayan civilization, Roanoke, ghost ships, and so on.

The monster absorbs other living forms to gain bulk and can perfectly imitate other animals. It can develop microscopic "probes" or "phantoms" that imitate eaten living forms and follow the commands of its "hive mind" to go out and hunt new victims; also, the monster absorbs the mental capacity of those it eats.

The nucleus, which is positioned in the core of its main body, is its single living organ. The cells of the monster have a chemical structure comparable to that of fossil fuels; when this is discovered, the scientists utilize oil-eating bacteria to destroy the Enemy's core or brain. Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty created the genetically modified bacteria in real life.

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The Eyes of Darkness Summary

The Eyes of Darkness

Published: 10, May 1981

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Leigh Nichols)

Genre: Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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The Eyes of Darkness

Summary

Tina Evans, a stage producer, begins getting paranormal signals implying that her son Danny is still alive a year after he is allegedly killed in an accident on a camping trip. 

She prepares to exhume Danny's body to set her mind at peace after never seeing his body. Tina is assisted by Elliot Stryker, a newly acquainted lawyer who previously worked for Army Intelligence and with whom she is having an affair. 

They are quickly pursued by assassins hired by Project Pandora and barely make it out alive. Tina, sure that Danny is still alive, sets out to find out what happened to her kid and save him. 

Elliot joins her, and the two are pursued by other operatives who have been ordered to assassinate them. 

Danny leads Tina telepathically to an underground lab in the Sierra Nevada where her kid has been exposed to horrible experiments by a top-secret government organization.

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Night Chills Summary

Night Chills

Published: 1976

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Action, Adventure, American, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literary, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

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Night Chills

Summary

Widower Paul Annendale has brought his two children, Rya and Mark, on their yearly camping trip to Black Water, a small New England village. 

What no one knows is that the town has become a test site for a new experiment employing subliminal advertising tactics. 

This newly discovered technique was introduced into the town with the help of a chemical in the water supply and allows anyone with a special code phrase to gain total mind control of an exposed subject. 

It was developed by amoral scientist Ogden Salsbury and funded by multi-millionaire Leonard Dawson. Paul aims to put an end to this criminal scheme with the help of local business owner Sam Edison.

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Fear Nothing Summary

Fear Nothing

Published: 1998

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Conspiracy, Contemporary, Espionage, Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Medical, Occult, Psychological, Rural, Science Fiction, Small Town, Suspense, Technothrillers, Thriller

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Fear Nothing

Summary

Fear Nothing follows Christopher Snow for 24 hours as he finds and seeks to uncover a strange and apparently eternal conspiracy centered on a military outpost dubbed Fort Wyvern. 

The story begins with Christopher Snow visiting his dying father in the hospital. The lights are deliberately muted as Snow walks across the hospital to his father's room to protect him in his state. His father's final words of wisdom were, "Chris, don't be afraid. Have no fear "…

As he walks out of the hospital, Christopher Snow unintentionally and serendipitously witnesses his father's body being swapped with that of a drifter. 

Following the persons transporting the body to the funeral home, Christopher is almost apprehended, and a manhunt is launched. Christopher is pursued to the outskirts of town, and only his mastery of the night terrain allows him to stay ahead of his pursuers.

When Christopher returns home, he discovers his father's revolver on his bed, as well as an urgent message on his answering machine to contact Angela Ferryman, a nurse, and longstanding family friend. 

Orson, the family dog, is digging holes in the garden, which is unusual for him. Christopher halts the pet and takes Orson with him to meet Angela, who tells a weird narrative about a night some years ago when she discovered a strange rhesus monkey in her house, a scary beast rescued by secretive military officials. Before anything further is disclosed, Angela is slain in another room, and Christopher barely escapes when unknown perpetrators set fire to the residence.

Christopher rides his bike (with Orson) to the home of his closest buddy Bobby Halloway, a surfer who lives in a cottage on the outskirts of town near the sea. 

Bobby advises Christopher to leave the mystery alone and go about his daily life after hearing Chris' narrative. 

The guys enjoy some meals and a few beverages together (including the dog). Sasha, Christopher's girlfriend, interrupts their lunch with a message from another of Christopher's friends. 

The message drives him and Orson racing into the darkness, where they are pursued by a swarm of mutant rhesus monkeys headed by a mysterious creature like a half-man, half-beast.

As Christopher meets with Roosevelt Frost, an ex-football star who now concentrates on a knack for communicating with animals, he has cautioned off his inquiry once more, but now feels determined to solve this riddle. 

Frost alluded to unusual, abnormally intelligent animals escaping from the military base, such as cats and dogs. 

Later, he suggests to Christopher that his dog, Orson, is most likely from the military base laboratories. He makes a cryptic remark about Christopher being shielded by his mother's inheritance.

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