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Velocity - Dean Koontz

 

Description: ISBN 0007196970 / Author: Dean Koontz / Genre: Crime / Thriller / The new fast-moving thriller from Dean Koontz is the story of an ... more
Velocity - Dean Koontz ... innocent man forced by a serial killer to choose who will be murdered next. William Wiles is an easygoing thirty-something, a bartender who lives a quiet life alone until a serial killer singles him out - not to kill him, but to force him to decide who the next victim will be. On his SUV, Billy finds the first note: 'If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blonde schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours.' Billy pays an informal visit to an acquaintance, Lanny Olson, who is a policeman, and who thinks the note is a prank.

Newest Review: ... under the wipers of his car, when coming off his usual shift. It appears to be some kind of sick joke. After all, he is being ... more

 ... asked to decide the fate of a killer's victims without any preparation. Why choose him, even if this is just a joke? For Billy has distanced himself from life after his fiancée fell into a coma nearly four years ago and hasn't given much of himself since then. Initially he thinks it's a prank, but still shows the note to his friend who is also a cop. When the suggested victim in the note turns up dead then both Billy and his cop friend Lanny, have to take notice of the second note, again a choice between two vict...more

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QueenElf
Premium Review Velocity - Dean Koontz: Mind Games. (1165 words)
by QueenElf - written on 04.01.08 (Very useful, 97 readings)
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I'm a huge fan of Dean Koontz and even a book that doesn't quite make the mark I expect from him, still I will read it and add it to my library. At the risk of repeating myself from other reviews, I read a lot and often re-read favourite books every few years. I used to buy hardbacks, then my budget forced me into paperbacks and just lately I've been buying second hand. I'm fortunate here as I do get a lot bought for me and since I can easily read four books a week, as well as writing, then my daughter's contribution from London book-shops keeps me up to date with my favourite writers. I like Koontz as a writer and I fully understand his reasons for writing. I just wish ...

IainWear
Premium Review More Velocity, Less Speed (873 words)
by IainWear - written on 09.09.06 (Very useful, 477 readings)
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I’ve been a fan of Dean Koontz for a number of years. Not devoted enough to rush out and buy his latest novel on the day of release in hardback, it’s true, but enough that I make sure none of his paperback releases pass me by. Like many authors who have been writing as long as he has, sometimes he delights me and sometimes he disappoints me. In the last couple of years, he has done more of the former, but that wasn’t always true. He had a bad run a few years ago that made me conclude that the thicker a Dean Koontz novel is, the worse it’s likely to be. So I was pleased to note that “Velocity” wasn’t so big. Billy Wiles is nothing special. He lives alone ...

wendybull
Premium Review Velocity - Dean Koontz: Damned if you do - Damned if you don't! (1040 words)
by wendybull - written on 08.09.06 (Very useful, 229 readings)
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I grabbed this book as a real bargain from a cheapy bookshop for all of 99p after reading a review written on here that caught my attention. I needed only two sentences to get me hooked on the idea and read the book. These were: “If you don’t take this note to the police, I will KILL a lovely blonde schoolteacher somewhere in Napa County.” “If you do take this note to the police, I will instead KILL an elderly woman active in charity work.” Just those two lines made me realise this was going to be something I would really enjoy and as the author was Dean Koontz, whom I have read favourably before, it was a foregone conclusion ...

 
 
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