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Spectres»rank: 270272par: Dean Rae Koontz
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Face of Fear»rank: 270272par: Koontz Dean R.
Chroniques et points de vue: Amazon.com: You and your friend Sarah are being chased by a homicidal maniac through an office building in the middle of the night. You take refuge in an empty office like frightened cockroaches, but the doors are forced open, revealing your antenna-quivering vulnerability. In desperation, you scramble up and down elevator shafts with one lame leg dangling helplessly behind, and try other life-threatening feats that seem to be more appealing than getting an ice-pick through your skull. The most horrifying thing about this scenario: the person chasing you is not a disgruntled co-worker, and it's not your boss! It's a notoriously murderous rapist, and he's just about to get you or Sarah every turn of the way. And then you remember the terror of falling while climbing Mount Everest and you think you've figured out how to escape... but have you? You still haven't figured out who will be crushed by the monster snow-plow! I've never read many thrillers before--much less Koontz--but I was trapped with this book in a strange hotel in a strange city, and was then kept awake the rest of the night wondering what those noises were outside my door. Koontz has, apparently, done it again. And I fear I may now be hooked on thrillers. |
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Seule survivante»rank: 292578par: Koontz Dean
Chroniques et points de vue: Amazon.fr: Il y a un an, Joe Carpenter, ancien reporter criminel au Los Angeles Post, a perdu sa femme et ses deux filles dans le crash du 747 New York-Los Angeles. Au cimetière, Joe découvre une certaine Rose Tucker en train de photographier la tombe de sa famille. Mais, poursuivie par des tueurs, celle-ci s'enfuit. Rose s'avère être l'unique survivante du crash. Comment a-t-elle survécu ? Pourquoi la pourchasse-t-on ? Comprenant qu'il existe un lien entre cette femme et l'accident, Joe décide de trouver ceux qui, comme lui, ont perdu un membre de leur famille et avec lesquels Rose est entrée en contact. Il va rencontrer Barbara Christman, chargée d'enquête sur le 747 : l'étude de la boîte noire révèle que le pilote aurait volontairement causé le crash. En donnant à son récit une dimension à la fois tragique et empreinte d'une incroyable rigueur journalistique, Dean Koontz tient le lecteur en haleine jusqu'à la dernière page et il fait de lui un acteur à part entière dans la quête vitale de Joe. --Nicolas Mesplède |
Night Chills»rank: 292578par: Dean Koontz
Chroniques et points de vue: Amazon.fr: Il y a un an, Joe Carpenter, ancien reporter criminel au Los Angeles Post, a perdu sa femme et ses deux filles dans le crash du 747 New York-Los Angeles. Au cimetière, Joe découvre une certaine Rose Tucker en train de photographier la tombe de sa famille. Mais, poursuivie par des tueurs, celle-ci s'enfuit. Rose s'avère être l'unique survivante du crash. Comment a-t-elle survécu ? Pourquoi la pourchasse-t-on ? Comprenant qu'il existe un lien entre cette femme et l'accident, Joe décide de trouver ceux qui, comme lui, ont perdu un membre de leur famille et avec lesquels Rose est entrée en contact. Il va rencontrer Barbara Christman, chargée d'enquête sur le 747 : l'étude de la boîte noire révèle que le pilote aurait volontairement causé le crash. En donnant à son récit une dimension à la fois tragique et empreinte d'une incroyable rigueur journalistique, Dean Koontz tient le lecteur en haleine jusqu'à la dernière page et il fait de lui un acteur à part entière dans la quête vitale de Joe. --Nicolas Mesplède |
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Geschöpfe der Nacht.»rank: 292578par: Dean Koontz
Chroniques et points de vue: Amazon.fr: Il y a un an, Joe Carpenter, ancien reporter criminel au Los Angeles Post, a perdu sa femme et ses deux filles dans le crash du 747 New York-Los Angeles. Au cimetière, Joe découvre une certaine Rose Tucker en train de photographier la tombe de sa famille. Mais, poursuivie par des tueurs, celle-ci s'enfuit. Rose s'avère être l'unique survivante du crash. Comment a-t-elle survécu ? Pourquoi la pourchasse-t-on ? Comprenant qu'il existe un lien entre cette femme et l'accident, Joe décide de trouver ceux qui, comme lui, ont perdu un membre de leur famille et avec lesquels Rose est entrée en contact. Il va rencontrer Barbara Christman, chargée d'enquête sur le 747 : l'étude de la boîte noire révèle que le pilote aurait volontairement causé le crash. En donnant à son récit une dimension à la fois tragique et empreinte d'une incroyable rigueur journalistique, Dean Koontz tient le lecteur en haleine jusqu'à la dernière page et il fait de lui un acteur à part entière dans la quête vitale de Joe. --Nicolas Mesplède |
From the Corner of His Eye»rank: 292578par: Dean R. Koontz
Chroniques et points de vue: Amazon.co.uk: Some men are not serial killers--they just keep finding reasons, which seem good to them at the time, for a series of murders; Junior, the villain of Dean Koontz's genuinely strange dark comedy of misunderstanding and awful death From the Corner of his Eye suffers from the delusion that he is the favoured child of destiny, and that all he has to do is tinker with reality one more time, kill one more person. He keeps guessing wrong--he thinks that he has to fnid a child called Bartholomew, who is his nemesis; we get to know Bartholomew, a prodigy who loses his eyes to cancer as a child, but can walk between raindrops. Bartholomew is only one of the good people whom Junior's crimes bring together--for a book with as much mayhem as this one contains, it is one which has a surprising confidence in the provident ability of the universe to bring the delightful out of the horrible, the wonderful out of the disgusting. Dean Koontz has always been one of the more interesting writers to operate in that strange area where sf, horror and the thriller blend and merge; here he further blends and mingles tragedy and comedy, the sacred and the profane. --Roz Kaveney Amazon.com: Horrormeister Koontz looks heavenward for inspiration in his newest suspense thriller, which is chock-full of signs, portents, angels, and one somewhat second-rate devil, a murky and undercharacterized guy named Junior Cain who throws his beloved wife off a fire tower on an Oregon mountain and spends the rest of the novel waiting for the retribution that will surely come. But not before a series of tragedies ensues that convince Junior that someone or something named Bartholomew is out to exact vengeance for that crime and the series of other murders that follow. Bartholomew's own troubles begin with his birth, which transpires moments after his father is killed in a traffic accident as he is taking his wife to the hospital, and continue with the loss of his eyes at the tender age of 3. Young Bartholomew has visionary gifts, though to his mother, a nice lady who's renowned for her pie-making abilities as well as her sweetly innocent nature, he's just a particularly smart kid who can read and write before his second birthday. Eventually, Bartholomew regains his sight, Junior Cain gets his comeuppance, and fate conspires to bring love into the Pie Lady's life, reward the faithful, and put a happy ending on this genre-bending tale. Koontz will no doubt rocket right to the top of the bestseller list with this inventive, if somewhat slower-paced, read. --Jane Adams |
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Flüstern in der Nacht»rank: 292578par: Dean R. Koontz
Chroniques et points de vue: Amazon.co.uk: Some men are not serial killers--they just keep finding reasons, which seem good to them at the time, for a series of murders; Junior, the villain of Dean Koontz's genuinely strange dark comedy of misunderstanding and awful death From the Corner of his Eye suffers from the delusion that he is the favoured child of destiny, and that all he has to do is tinker with reality one more time, kill one more person. He keeps guessing wrong--he thinks that he has to fnid a child called Bartholomew, who is his nemesis; we get to know Bartholomew, a prodigy who loses his eyes to cancer as a child, but can walk between raindrops. Bartholomew is only one of the good people whom Junior's crimes bring together--for a book with as much mayhem as this one contains, it is one which has a surprising confidence in the provident ability of the universe to bring the delightful out of the horrible, the wonderful out of the disgusting. Dean Koontz has always been one of the more interesting writers to operate in that strange area where sf, horror and the thriller blend and merge; here he further blends and mingles tragedy and comedy, the sacred and the profane. --Roz Kaveney Amazon.com: Horrormeister Koontz looks heavenward for inspiration in his newest suspense thriller, which is chock-full of signs, portents, angels, and one somewhat second-rate devil, a murky and undercharacterized guy named Junior Cain who throws his beloved wife off a fire tower on an Oregon mountain and spends the rest of the novel waiting for the retribution that will surely come. But not before a series of tragedies ensues that convince Junior that someone or something named Bartholomew is out to exact vengeance for that crime and the series of other murders that follow. Bartholomew's own troubles begin with his birth, which transpires moments after his father is killed in a traffic accident as he is taking his wife to the hospital, and continue with the loss of his eyes at the tender age of 3. Young Bartholomew has visionary gifts, though to his mother, a nice lady who's renowned for her pie-making abilities as well as her sweetly innocent nature, he's just a particularly smart kid who can read and write before his second birthday. Eventually, Bartholomew regains his sight, Junior Cain gets his comeuppance, and fate conspires to bring love into the Pie Lady's life, reward the faithful, and put a happy ending on this genre-bending tale. Koontz will no doubt rocket right to the top of the bestseller list with this inventive, if somewhat slower-paced, read. --Jane Adams |
Les yeux foudroyes»rank: 331757par: Dean R. Koontz
Chroniques et points de vue: Amazon.co.uk: Some men are not serial killers--they just keep finding reasons, which seem good to them at the time, for a series of murders; Junior, the villain of Dean Koontz's genuinely strange dark comedy of misunderstanding and awful death From the Corner of his Eye suffers from the delusion that he is the favoured child of destiny, and that all he has to do is tinker with reality one more time, kill one more person. He keeps guessing wrong--he thinks that he has to fnid a child called Bartholomew, who is his nemesis; we get to know Bartholomew, a prodigy who loses his eyes to cancer as a child, but can walk between raindrops. Bartholomew is only one of the good people whom Junior's crimes bring together--for a book with as much mayhem as this one contains, it is one which has a surprising confidence in the provident ability of the universe to bring the delightful out of the horrible, the wonderful out of the disgusting. Dean Koontz has always been one of the more interesting writers to operate in that strange area where sf, horror and the thriller blend and merge; here he further blends and mingles tragedy and comedy, the sacred and the profane. --Roz Kaveney Amazon.com: Horrormeister Koontz looks heavenward for inspiration in his newest suspense thriller, which is chock-full of signs, portents, angels, and one somewhat second-rate devil, a murky and undercharacterized guy named Junior Cain who throws his beloved wife off a fire tower on an Oregon mountain and spends the rest of the novel waiting for the retribution that will surely come. But not before a series of tragedies ensues that convince Junior that someone or something named Bartholomew is out to exact vengeance for that crime and the series of other murders that follow. Bartholomew's own troubles begin with his birth, which transpires moments after his father is killed in a traffic accident as he is taking his wife to the hospital, and continue with the loss of his eyes at the tender age of 3. Young Bartholomew has visionary gifts, though to his mother, a nice lady who's renowned for her pie-making abilities as well as her sweetly innocent nature, he's just a particularly smart kid who can read and write before his second birthday. Eventually, Bartholomew regains his sight, Junior Cain gets his comeuppance, and fate conspires to bring love into the Pie Lady's life, reward the faithful, and put a happy ending on this genre-bending tale. Koontz will no doubt rocket right to the top of the bestseller list with this inventive, if somewhat slower-paced, read. --Jane Adams |
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Icebound (Mm to Tr Promotion)»rank: 331757par: Koontz Dean R.
Chroniques et points de vue: Amazon.co.uk: Some men are not serial killers--they just keep finding reasons, which seem good to them at the time, for a series of murders; Junior, the villain of Dean Koontz's genuinely strange dark comedy of misunderstanding and awful death From the Corner of his Eye suffers from the delusion that he is the favoured child of destiny, and that all he has to do is tinker with reality one more time, kill one more person. He keeps guessing wrong--he thinks that he has to fnid a child called Bartholomew, who is his nemesis; we get to know Bartholomew, a prodigy who loses his eyes to cancer as a child, but can walk between raindrops. Bartholomew is only one of the good people whom Junior's crimes bring together--for a book with as much mayhem as this one contains, it is one which has a surprising confidence in the provident ability of the universe to bring the delightful out of the horrible, the wonderful out of the disgusting. Dean Koontz has always been one of the more interesting writers to operate in that strange area where sf, horror and the thriller blend and merge; here he further blends and mingles tragedy and comedy, the sacred and the profane. --Roz Kaveney Amazon.com: Horrormeister Koontz looks heavenward for inspiration in his newest suspense thriller, which is chock-full of signs, portents, angels, and one somewhat second-rate devil, a murky and undercharacterized guy named Junior Cain who throws his beloved wife off a fire tower on an Oregon mountain and spends the rest of the novel waiting for the retribution that will surely come. But not before a series of tragedies ensues that convince Junior that someone or something named Bartholomew is out to exact vengeance for that crime and the series of other murders that follow. Bartholomew's own troubles begin with his birth, which transpires moments after his father is killed in a traffic accident as he is taking his wife to the hospital, and continue with the loss of his eyes at the tender age of 3. Young Bartholomew has visionary gifts, though to his mother, a nice lady who's renowned for her pie-making abilities as well as her sweetly innocent nature, he's just a particularly smart kid who can read and write before his second birthday. Eventually, Bartholomew regains his sight, Junior Cain gets his comeuppance, and fate conspires to bring love into the Pie Lady's life, reward the faithful, and put a happy ending on this genre-bending tale. Koontz will no doubt rocket right to the top of the bestseller list with this inventive, if somewhat slower-paced, read. --Jane Adams |
Les larmes du dragon»rank: 331757par: Dean R. (Ray) Koontz, Michel Demuth
Chroniques et points de vue: Amazon.co.uk: Some men are not serial killers--they just keep finding reasons, which seem good to them at the time, for a series of murders; Junior, the villain of Dean Koontz's genuinely strange dark comedy of misunderstanding and awful death From the Corner of his Eye suffers from the delusion that he is the favoured child of destiny, and that all he has to do is tinker with reality one more time, kill one more person. He keeps guessing wrong--he thinks that he has to fnid a child called Bartholomew, who is his nemesis; we get to know Bartholomew, a prodigy who loses his eyes to cancer as a child, but can walk between raindrops. Bartholomew is only one of the good people whom Junior's crimes bring together--for a book with as much mayhem as this one contains, it is one which has a surprising confidence in the provident ability of the universe to bring the delightful out of the horrible, the wonderful out of the disgusting. Dean Koontz has always been one of the more interesting writers to operate in that strange area where sf, horror and the thriller blend and merge; here he further blends and mingles tragedy and comedy, the sacred and the profane. --Roz Kaveney Amazon.com: Horrormeister Koontz looks heavenward for inspiration in his newest suspense thriller, which is chock-full of signs, portents, angels, and one somewhat second-rate devil, a murky and undercharacterized guy named Junior Cain who throws his beloved wife off a fire tower on an Oregon mountain and spends the rest of the novel waiting for the retribution that will surely come. But not before a series of tragedies ensues that convince Junior that someone or something named Bartholomew is out to exact vengeance for that crime and the series of other murders that follow. Bartholomew's own troubles begin with his birth, which transpires moments after his father is killed in a traffic accident as he is taking his wife to the hospital, and continue with the loss of his eyes at the tender age of 3. Young Bartholomew has visionary gifts, though to his mother, a nice lady who's renowned for her pie-making abilities as well as her sweetly innocent nature, he's just a particularly smart kid who can read and write before his second birthday. Eventually, Bartholomew regains his sight, Junior Cain gets his comeuppance, and fate conspires to bring love into the Pie Lady's life, reward the faithful, and put a happy ending on this genre-bending tale. Koontz will no doubt rocket right to the top of the bestseller list with this inventive, if somewhat slower-paced, read. --Jane Adams |