The Husband
What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscape gardener Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was busy planting flower beds for one of his clients when his phone rang. Now he's...
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What would you do for love?
Would you die? Would you kill?
We have your wife.
You can get her back
for two million cash.
Landscape gardener Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was busy planting flower beds for one of his clients when his phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighbourhood on a bright summer day having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. See that guy across the street? Rifle fire shatters the stillness as the man goes down, shot in the head. An object lesson.
The caller doesn't care that Mitch has no way of raising such a vast sum. He's confident that Mitch will find a way. If he loves his wife enough.
Mitch does love her enough. He's got sixty hours to prove it. He'll pay anything. He'll pay a lot more than two million dollars.
From the master storyteller comes a story of love, tenacity and courage with the pace of a runaway train. The Husband is a thriller that holds the reader in its relentless grip from its tense opening to its shattering climax.
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Format: hardcover
Publish date: 03-07-2006
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
This could possibly be the last good Dean Koontz novel. I only say "possibly" because I have yet to read RELENTLESS, which was published after this one, and do not hold high hopes for me liking it. Written in 2006, three years after the stellar debut of Pico Mundo's paranormally-inclined fry cook,...
Typical Koontz. Mildly interesting at the beginning, then relatively exciting from the middle onwards, with poetry vomit describing stuff and whatnot at regular intervals. Overall okay, but not one of his best.
I listened to this on audio today and it was such a disappointment. No humor, no golden retriever's and a bland leading man who finds himself in an unthinkable situation when his wife is kidnapped & held for a ransom he can't possibly meet (he's a gardener). Chaos ensues, secrets are revealed and al...
Gah. Koontz weirds me out. His character twists are great in this book... I pictured Owen Wilson as the bro, for some reason.I felt it ended weakly, like there should have been more. I've been watching too much CSI.
2.5 stars.Had a hard time staying with it.