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Cargando... Velocity (edición 2006)por Dean Koontz
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. My first Dean Koontz novel I've read in a while and it did not disappoint. Billy Wiles is an easy-going bartender with an ordinary job. That is until one day a note is left on his car. The note threatens to kill a different person based on what action Billy takes or doesn't take. Billy calls his friend, a cop, who thinks it's a crank and nothing is done about it. But when a young schoolteacher is killed less than 24 hour later, he knows better. As more ominous notes appear and more innocent people are killed, evidence is planted to incriminate Billy. The hunt is on to find the psychopath before the madness comes to an end and Billy is killed. There is plenty of suspense, mystery, and a surprise ending. Definitely worth the read. ( ) I didn't LOVE this book, but I did enjoy it, and it was a fast read, a nice break from reading slow-going classics. There were some details I found a bit distracting, like the fact that keeping a body rolled in plastic for a full day, when the weather is warm enough to make air conditioning desirable, would definitely make the house smell like there is a corpse inside. Mostly this story was well thought out though, and while I had worked out who the bad guys were (and weren't) before the MC figured it out, it took me long enough that I was not just waiting for him to catch up for half the book. As suspense novels go, this one was fairly good. Don't expect finely crafted characters, but if you want fast-reading suspense, this is a decent option. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond 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. It seems like a sick joke, and Bill's friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it's Bill's fault: he didn't convince the police to get involved. Now he's got another note, another deadline, another ultimatum--and two new lives hanging in the balance. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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