Dean Koontz - The Husband Dean Koontz's The Husband concerns landscape gardener Mitchell, who one day receives a phone call demanding a 2 million dollar ransom for his wife. Mitch, of course doesn't have that kind of money, but pulls out all the stops to save his wife from the kidnappers. Koontz tries to create the impression of Mitch being a happy, small-time business man who is thrust into big-time crime. Unfortunately for Koontz though it all seems a little familiar. It seems recently that most of Koontz books follow a set pattern: a white Christian man's life is turned upside down by a faceless, utterly evil and ruthless adversary with ...  Read the complete review

After recently reading THE GOOD GUY, I was inspired to initiate a swap on READITSWAPIT for this; one of the few Koontz novels I didn't already possess. What did I think of it? Well its ooookay but probably only for proper Dean.R.Koontz fans as its not good enough in my eyes to attract newer readers to this author in the future. Mitch is a landscape gardener of considerable talent who recieves a phone call informing him that his wife has been kidnapped. In exchange for two million dollars, the kidnappers will let her go- to prove their seriousness, they gun down a guy walking his dog on the opposite side of the street. But theres a slight ...  Read the complete review

Would YOU kill for love? I'm finally beginning to catch up with the latest books by Dean Koontz, after a gap of about five years. It wasn't intentional, I just got caught up with new authors and thought I would save money by buying the paperbacks later on. Prior to reading The Husband, I had just read Velocity and found it very different to his earlier books. Actually I think his writing has taken a turn for the worse in some ways, though I don't expect others to agree with me. Reading this new one led me to think that Koontz is maybe taking some of his readers comments too far, or maybe he thinks that less is better. ~~ Welcome to the world of ...  Read the complete review