By the Light of the Moon
In By the Light of the Moon artist Dylan O'Connor is driving through Arizona with his autistic brother Shepherd, and decides to catch up on his sleep in a motel. But (as Hitchcock demonstrated) motels can be dangerous places, and Dylan is soon tied up, gagged and being pumped full of strange...
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In By the Light of the Moon artist Dylan O'Connor is driving through Arizona with his autistic brother Shepherd, and decides to catch up on his sleep in a motel. But (as Hitchcock demonstrated) motels can be dangerous places, and Dylan is soon tied up, gagged and being pumped full of strange fluid by sinister doctor. At the same time, comedian Jillian Jackson is watching her career feebly played out against a succession of down-market comedy joints. All her dreams of changing her life are torpedoed when she, too, becomes a victim of the deranged scientist, who steals her car. Then begins a lunatic chase, involving the doctor and his victims, and the surfaces of reality quickly become very insubstantial. As the plot suggests, Koontz's new book is quite unlike anything he has written before (or, for that matter, unlike anything by his contemporaries); the highly ingenious plotting is matched by some beguilingly off-kilter characterisation and a breathtaking pace that allows for little pause. One can only admire this writer's refusal to repeat himself: a phenomenon all too rare with so many other thriller writers simply recycling the same old material. --Barry Forshaw
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781843950707 (1843950707)
Publish date: November 1st 2003
Publisher: BDS titles not on BD and which cannot be assigned
Pages no: 552
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Mystery,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Horror,
Womens,
Suspense,
Supernatural
Jilly and Dylan are strangers who are both knocked unconscious and injected with a strange substance by a scientist they refer to as Doctor Frankenstein. This chance encounter brings the two together, and they (with Dylan’s autistic brother Shep in tow) are off for a high-stakes adventure as they di...
BLUF: Leave it and please.. don’t make this the first Dean Koontz book you read.Here’s the deal. Right now, I spend way too much time at my in-laws’ house. Love them dearly, but they never stop arguing, complaining, criticizing, and/or freaking out. I cannot stand it. I listened to By the Light of t...
Dylan O'Conner zarabia na życie jako malarz. Jeździ po Stanach Zjednoczonych, maluje i sprzedaje swoje dzieła. W podróżach towarzyszy mu jego młodszy brat, Shepherd, cierpiący na odmianę autyzmu. Jill Jackson występuje jako komik. Ona także podróżuje po Stanach Zjednoczonych. Drogi braci O'Conner i ...
Dylan O'Conner zarabia na życie jako malarz. Jeździ po Stanach Zjednoczonych, maluje i sprzedaje swoje dzieła. W podróżach towarzyszy mu jego młodszy brat, Shepherd, cierpiący na odmianę autyzmu. Jill Jackson występuje jako komik. Ona także podróżuje po Stanach Zjednoczonych. Drogi braci O'Conner i ...
Another great book by Koontz! Twisted right up till the end. Dylan is the main caretaker of his autistic brother Shep and they are enjoying a typical night in a hotel when a strange man infects them both with a strange solution. Jilly in another customer at the hotel who has an encounter with this...