Strangers - Dean Koontz

I have to confess that I sometimes have issues with Dean Koontz books; they either get gratuitously mushy, or the denounement proves to be a profound disappointment. Strangers, on the other hand, was refeshingly different; the scenario: disparate people across the continental United States suffering, if that be the word, from tantalising glimpses - flashbacks, almost - of disturbing events. Someone who lapses into panic attacks when she sees black gloves; disturbing, claustrophobic dreams; a former Marine with an unconscionable, irrational fear of the dark and, what we have in total is 8 people who separately share the same strange dread, centred on the ...  Read the complete review

Strangers is probably one of my favourite Dean Koontz and I have read them all!! Across America several people are starting to have weird dreams, or experience extreme terror over simple things. A writer finds he is missing time, but has typed pages of the same word, a surgeon has panic attacks when she sees black leather gloves, a motel keeper suddenly finds himself scared of the dark, a priest who no longer believes in God, and thief who can no longer steal. Why is this happening to them and what is is the cause? Some begin to receive messages in the mail, a photo of a stranger, or a postcard from the Tranquillity Motel. One by one ...  Read the complete review