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Chase - Dean Koontz

 
Description: ISBN 0747235252 / Author: Dean Koontz / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... with a man who has murdered defenceless women and children and yet Koontz attempts to help us empathise with him. His ... more

 ... actions are ameliorated by his self-destructive guilt and his own evident self-loathing. While these actions alone do not make up for his wartime activities, he is the central character of the novel and as such we are bound to give him the benefit of the doubt. So we learn to see him as ?as much a victim of his society as the Vietnamese women had been victims of theirs? (although this glib statement ov erlooks the fact that the women w...more

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Premium Review Chase - Dean Koontz: Search for the Hero (1030 words)
by - written on 25/07/03 (Very useful, 112 readings)
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Another day, another Koontz, another one word title. THE PLOT Ben Chase lives alone, wracked by guilt for his killing of some civilians during the Vietnam War and yet hailed as a national hero and awarded a medal for bravery. One night he finds himself at a local teenage smooching spot when he notices a suspicious male approaching one of the lovers? cars. He follows but is two late to save the life of the young man within but saves his girlfriend from a similar fate. The assailant escapes. Chase then receives a telephone call from the assailant, who states that he will now evaluate Chase?s life and then execute him if he is found to ...  Read the complete review

 

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