Prodigal Son - Dean Koontz's Frankentein 1

Zusatztext “Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail! using popular fiction to explore the human condition [and] demonstrating that the real horror of life is found not in monsters! but within the human psyche.”— USA Today "A compelling read.... The odd juxtaposition of a police procedural with a neo-gothic! mad scientist plot gives the novel a wickedly unusual and intriguing feel ... with an elegant cliffhanger ending."— Publishers Weekly "This is classic Koontz at his best. The plot zips along! the characters are grotesque and funny. The basic elements of Mary Shelley's novel! though slightly altered! fit right in."— Fangoria “One of the master storytellers of this or any age.”— Tampa Tribune Informationen zum Autor Dean Koontz, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirit of their goldens, Trixie and Anna. Klappentext From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of . . . Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion's path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O'Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire race of killers who are much more-and less-than human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Helios-once known as Frankenstein. Chapter One Deucalion seldom slept, but when he did, he dreamed. Every dream was a nightmare. None frightened him. He was the spawn of nightmares, after all; and he had been toughened by a life of terror. During the afternoon, napping in his simple cell, he dreamed that a surgeon opened his abdomen to insert a mysterious, squirming mass. Awake but manacled to the surgical table, Deucalion could only endure the procedure. After he had been sewn shut, he felt something crawling inside his body cavity, as though curious, exploring. From behind his mask, the surgeon said, “A messenger approaches. Life changes with a letter.” He woke from the dream and knew that it had been prophetic. He possessed no psychic power of a classic nature, but sometimes omens came in his sleep. In these mountains of tibet, a fiery sunset conjured a mirage of molten gold from the glaciers and the snowfields. A serrated blade of Himalayan peaks, with Everest at its hilt, cut the sky. Far from civilization, this vast panorama soothed Deucalion. For several years, he had preferred to avoid people, except for Buddhist monks in this windswept rooftop of the world. Although he had not killed for a long time, he still harbored the capacity for homicidal fury. Here he strove always to suppress his darker urges, sought calm, and hoped to find true peace. From an open stone balcony of the whitewashed monastery, as he gazed at the sun-splashed ice pack, he considered, not for the first time, that these two elements, fire and ice, defined his life. At his side, an elderly monk, Nebo, asked, “Are you looking at the mountains—or beyond them, to what you left behind?” Although Deucalion had learned to speak several Tibetan dialects during his lengthy sojourn here, he and the old monk often spoke English, for i...

Product details

• Authors: Kevin J Anderson, Kevin J. Anderson, Dean Koontz, Dean R. Koontz
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.07.2009
• EAN: 9780553593327
• ISBN: 978-0-553-59332-7
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 192 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Frankenstein; Frankenstein (Paperback); Frankenstein
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense