For one man, facing his own murder is not as terrifying as surviving it in this blistering novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. A brutal killer known as “The Butcher” is stalking women in New York City. When the police enlist the help of clairvoyant Graham Harris, the horrifying images of the Butcher’s crimes replay in Harris’s mind—sometimes even at the moment … mind—sometimes even at the moment they are happening. Then he sees the most terrifying vision of all—that of his own murder.
Harris and his girlfriend soon find themselves trapped on the fortieth floor of a deserted office building. The guards have been killed, the elevators shut down, and the stairways blocked. The only way out is to climb down the sheer face of the building. Otherwise they’ll become the Butcher’s next victims.
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Anything Koontz writes is terrific!!! REad it! You won’t regret it! Koontz is the master of thrillers!
I originally read this book under Mr. Koontz’s pseudonym Brian Coffey and was blown away.
A suspenseful piece involving an elusive serial killer and a former mountain climber/psychic whose last climbing adventure left him scarred both mentally and physically.
The race is on as the psychic tries to aid the police (as he has on several previous cases involving missing persons and their murderers), only for some strange reason he cannot zero on this this one. Even more unsettling is the fact that he has now seen a vision of both himself and his beloved coming under the unseen psychopath’s blade.
Mystery and incredible twists and turns await the reader in this thriller from the master of the genre.
Early Koontz – when he was writing under a pseudonym.
Rating:
MATURE AUDIENCES
>Sex
>Strong creepy bad guy factor
>Violence
>Strong language
Just as the description says, a psychic gets visions of a serial killer’s actions as well as a hint to what may be his own death. The story, like many of Koontz’s works, turns into a race against time.
Not as flawlessly written as later work, but a good read nevertheless. Engrossing enough that I had to transition to something lighter before switching off the light at night, even though knowing how Koontz writes, I believed all would be well in the end.
Kindle version — Dean’s “Afterward,” which is not an extension of the story, is well worth reading. In it, among other anecdotes, he describes writing for TV, and how the made-for-TV version of this book is one of the few adaptations that does NOT make him cringe.