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Zusatztext `A fast-paced read` Mail on Sunday Informationen zum Autor Dean Koontz is an international household name whose novels have sold many millions of copies worldwide and have appeared on national and international bestseller lists! selling millions of copies each year. He lives with his wife Gerda! their dog Anna and the enduring spirit of their dog Trixie in southern California. 'Not just a master of our darkest dreams but also a literary juggler' -- The Times 'Koontz redefines suspense' -- The Times 'Koontz's style bleaches out cliches while showing a genius for detail' -- Publishers Weekly 'Koontz's art is making the reader believe the impossible... sit back and enjoy it' -- Sunday Telegraph 'A master of the thriller genre' -- Washington Post 'He combines rich, evocative prose, some of the warmest - and also some of the most despicable - characters to be found in fiction, technical speculations that seem to come directly from today's headlines and a sense of on-the-edge-of-the-seat pacing to create thrillers that are not just convincing, but thought-provoking as well' -- Mystery Scene 'A moral fable for the turn of the millennium, an engagingly written, hugely entertaining parable for our times' -- The Times 'Fast and furious... like a hospital trolley on a toboggan run' -- Mail on Sunday 'Koontz presents a unique fictional world well-grounded in convincing detail. Readers will be riveted to the narrative. Koontz's familiar theme of life's victims surviving the odds emerges here as forcefully as it does in SOLE SURVIVOR and INTENSITY, but Snow's physical limitations give it a more dangerous and intriguing edge' -- Publishers Weekly A thriller that plays terrifying tricks with your mind Zusammenfassung Martie Rhodes! a happily married! successful video games designer! takes an agoraphobic friend to therapy sessions twice a week. Each trip is a grim ordeal! but the experience has brought the two friends even closer together. Then! one morning! Martie experiences a brief! irrational but disquieting fear of... her shadow. When autophobia - one of the rarest and most intriguing phobias known to psychology - is diagnosed! suddenly! radically her life changes! and her future looks dark. Martie's husband! Dusty! loves her profoundly! and is desperate to understand the cause of her autophobia. But as he comes closer to the terrible truth! Dusty himself starts showing signs of a psychological disorder even more frightening than that afflicting Martie... ...