Seize the Night
Published: 1998
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre: Conspiracy, Contemporary, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Kidnapping, Literature, Medical, Mystery, Supernatural, Suspense, Time Travel, Thriller
Book 2 of 3: Moonlight Bay
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Summary
Fear Nothing is followed by Seize the Night, which begins a few months later. It all starts when Chris and his dog Orson run across Chris's ex-girlfriend, Lilly Wing, whose son Jimmy has recently gone missing.
Chris promises Lilly that he will find Jimmy and sets out with Orson to begin the search. The path brings them to Fort Wyvern, an abandoned military post that Chris enjoys exploring.
They examine the base but quickly become separated, and Orson disappears. Chris contacts his closest buddy Bobby Halloway to help him in the hunt, fearing for his dog's and Jimmy's safety, and then sends his current girlfriend Sasha Goodall to Lilly's house to comfort her.
Soon after summoning them, Chris encounters roughly thirty of the rhesus monkeys seen near the conclusion of Fear Nothing and seeks safety in a neighboring home. Bobby's arrival saves him from being discovered by the monkeys who follow him in.
Bobby and Chris investigate the base but come up empty-handed, save for a few unusual machines and chambers. They pass by Lilly's house on their way out. Sasha and Chris return to their home, while Bobby travels to Lilly's mother-in-law Jenna's home to return her to Lilly's.
The following day, Chris contacts Manuel Ramirez, the acting head of police, to provide him with information on Jimmy Wing's kidnapper's car. When he doesn't get a response, he leaves a note for Manuel to phone him after noon. Bobby returns a short time later to inform Jimmy that he is not the only missing youngster.
Later, Manuel warns Chris to back off while taking his and Bobby's firearms and wrecking his home. Roosevelt Frost comes with his cat, Mungojerrie, shortly after he leaves. They all depart and travel to an ancient road a few miles away, where Sasha's radio station employee, Doogie, joins them. They then return to Fort Wyvern to continue looking for the children and Orson.
Chris and his group enter the base, where Bobby is gravely injured in an ambush. He dispatches everyone else to find the kids and Orson, and when they return with them, Bobby eventually dies.
Chris, reluctant to leave Bobby's body behind, insists on carrying it with them on the way out. They literally confront themselves at the top of the shaft on the elevator trip back up, and Chris is able to save Bobby's former self from getting shot. Bobby's body vanishes from the elevator, and Chris takes the living Bobby with him out of the base to bring Jimmy and the other kids to their parents.
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