The Voice Of The Night
Published: 1980
Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Brian Coffey)
Genre: Coming Of Age, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Psychological, Suspense, Thriller
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Summary
Colin Jacobs, an introverted bookworm, goes to Santa Leona, California, with his mother in the summer of 1980 and quickly meets and befriends another youngster his age.
Colin aspires to be everything Roy Borden is not: courageous, gregarious, strong, athletically skilled, and a superb ladies' guy.
In sharp contrast to Colin, who "learned long ago that opposition produces pain" and avoids difficulties and confrontations, he is an innate warrior, ready to face up to anybody or anything.
Despite their differences, Roy appears to be happy to be friends with Colin, even adding that the lads and girls who think they are his friends are only acquaintances.
Colin and Roy quickly become good friends, and Roy makes them blood brothers after a brief ceremony.
Roy exhibits strange behavior, such as asking Colin whether he has ever murdered anything and referring to everything as fun as a popper, but Colin seems unconcerned.
Colin meets a lovely woman named Heather Lipschitz at a store one day, and he is both surprised and delighted to discover that the two are developing a romantic interest in one other.
He doesn't tell Roy, but he believes that his friendship with Roy has improved his image and made ladies more interested in him.
Roy continues to confide in Colin more, displaying a very pessimistic worldview as well as a fixation with sex, violence, and death.
Colin dismisses it as a joke, despite the fact that Roy claims to have murdered two other lads who declined his offer to be blood brothers. He drives Colin to an abandoned home near a railroad line, where he has rigged up an old pickup vehicle to be pushed downhill, causing an incoming passenger train to crash.
He approaches Colin for assistance, but Colin, realizing it was never a joke, tries to stop him. Roy pushes Colin aside and tries to drive the truck down to the tracks by himself, but it requires two people to keep it on track, and Roy shouts in wrath as the train passes by unhurt.
Roy attempts to murder Colin at the junkyard, but after nearly escaping, Colin discovers that no one believes him when he reveals who Roy is. Colin goes to Heather, and the two of them work together to discover the truth about Roy's hidden existence. They discover Roy is adopted and that when he was eight years old, he accidentally murdered his adoptive sister Belinda by getting behind the wheel of his adopted father's automobile while Belinda was playing behind it.
Mrs. Borden, who stepped outside just in time to witness it happen, was taken aback and repeatedly said, "Her tiny head...it just burst."
Mrs. Borden, who has always been preoccupied with keeping her house pristine, severely beat Roy with a metal dustpan when he got home and tracked dirt into the house soon after.
Both instances left Roy extremely traumatized, and he accepted the concept that he was a killer, and convinced himself over time that he did it all on purpose.
Roy, lonely and anxious for a true friend, attempted to contact two guys before Colin, and Colin and Heather corroborate that the boys died when, where, and how Roy said.
Colin phones Roy and tells him that he has lady for both of them and Roy grudgingly agrees to meet him at an abandoned mansion on the outskirts of town so they may take turns raping her.
Despite her apprehension of the scenario, Heather agrees to be the bait, and Colin makes it appear as though she was battered and then tied to a chair.
Colin manages to hide the handgun he took from his mother's bedroom before Roy arrives. Colin pretends to see things Roy's way and wishes they could be blood brothers again. Roy first doesn't trust him but is surprised to see Heather there, exactly as Colin predicted.
Colin acts to be willing to "share" her with Roy, impressing and delighting him. Roy exclaims that they are brothers once more, but Colin pulls out a gun and says he is arresting Roy.
Roy knows he has been duped and attacks, leaving Colin completely outmatched in the battle. He manages to reclaim the gun and shoots Roy in the leg as they fight.
Roy looks up as Colin prepares to shoot again, this time towards Roy's head, and his expression betrays something shocking: Roy is deeply sad and wishes to be put out of his agony.
Colin resists the impulse to kill him and goes outside to contact the cops. As he does so, he understands that the "voice of the night" is within him as well, and he must fight the temptation to listen to it as Roy did.
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Blood Brothers, Easy To Read, Edge Of Your Seat, Killed Anything, Koontz Books, Main Characters, Page Turner, Santa Leona, Year Old, Years Ago
Rating: 85/100
Recommended: 100/100 Yes.
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