The Good Guy - Dean Koontz

The Good Guy - Dean Koontz: A Real Tale of Cat & Mouse. (788 words)
by wendybull - written on 07.04.08 (Very useful, 88 readings)
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Tim Carrier lives a peaceful life. By day he is a stone mason and a good one at that, by night he sits quietly on the end bar stool in his friend's tavern, having a couple of beers and remaining anonymous. He likes it this way. He tells himself he is not lonely and does not need anyone else in his life. The fact that he is a huge, monster of a man, although a gentle giant, doesn't help his cause. So when a strange man comes into the bar and gives him an envelope full of cash saying "you get the rest when she's dead", Tim just doesn't react quickly enough to relay to the other man that he is not who he thinks he is. Matters are worsened a few minutes ...

A terrible case of mistaken identity........ (891 words)
by sparkymarky1973 - written on 22.03.08 (Very useful, 47 readings)
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Dean Koontz is one of those writers who has been around for ages; absolute yonks and yonks in fact!! He has written everything from spy thrillers (ICEBOUND and DRAGONFLY- both written under a pseudonym and only the former of which is currently available) to strict sci-fi (STRANGERS, DEMONSEED and WINTER MOON) through to cat-and-mouse edge-of-your-seat suspense novels (such as CHASE or INTENSITY) into which category this, one of his latest novels, falls. Koontz has even tackled Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, bringing it firmly into the modern age and has warmed hearts the world over with his creation of ODD THOMAS; a grill cook with the ability to see the recent, and sometimes ...