Fiction.
Horror.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:"Koontz is brilliant in the creation of his characters and in building tension." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
In Los Angeles, a hot Hollywood director, high on PCP, turns a city street into a fiery apocalypse. Heroic LAPD officer Jac McGarvey is badly wounded and will not walk for months. His wife and his child are left to fend for themselves against both criminals that control an increasingly violent city and the dead director's cult of fanatic fans. In a lonely corner of Montana, Eduardo Fernandez, the father of McGarvey's murdered partner, witnesses a strange nocturnal sight. The stand of pines outside his house suddenly glows with eerie amber light, and Fernandez senses a watcher in the winter woods. As the seasons change, the very creatures of the forest seem in league with a mysterious presence. Fernandez is caught up in a series of chilling incidents that escalate toward a confronation that could rob him of his sanity or his lifeâ??or both. As events careen out of control, the McGarvey family is drawn to Fernandez's Montana ranch. In that isolated place they discover their destiny in a terrifying and fiercely suspenseful encounter with a hostile, utterly ruthless, and enigmatic enemy, from which neither the living nor the dead are safe.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City… (más)
Beaches, surfers, California girls. Wind scented with fabulous dreams. Bougainvillea, groves of oranges. Stars are born, everything gleams.
A weather change. Â Shadows fall. New scent upon the wind -- deay. Cocaine, Uzis, drive-by shootings. Death is a banker. Â Everyone pays. --The Book of Counted Sorrows
Fiction.
Horror.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:"Koontz is brilliant in the creation of his characters and in building tension." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
In Los Angeles, a hot Hollywood director, high on PCP, turns a city street into a fiery apocalypse. Heroic LAPD officer Jac McGarvey is badly wounded and will not walk for months. His wife and his child are left to fend for themselves against both criminals that control an increasingly violent city and the dead director's cult of fanatic fans. In a lonely corner of Montana, Eduardo Fernandez, the father of McGarvey's murdered partner, witnesses a strange nocturnal sight. The stand of pines outside his house suddenly glows with eerie amber light, and Fernandez senses a watcher in the winter woods. As the seasons change, the very creatures of the forest seem in league with a mysterious presence. Fernandez is caught up in a series of chilling incidents that escalate toward a confronation that could rob him of his sanity or his lifeâ??or both. As events careen out of control, the McGarvey family is drawn to Fernandez's Montana ranch. In that isolated place they discover their destiny in a terrifying and fiercely suspenseful encounter with a hostile, utterly ruthless, and enigmatic enemy, from which neither the living nor the dead are safe.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City
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En Montana, el padre de otra de las vÃctimas, Eduardo Fernández, es testigo de un raro fenómeno: de repente en el pinar exterior de su casa resplandece una extraña luz ambarina. A continuación Fernández se ve atrapado en una serie de escalofriantes episodios que podrÃan hacerle perder la cabeza, y la vida.
A medida que se desencadenan los acontecimientos, la familia McGarvey se siente atraÃda hacia el rancho de Montana, donde descubren su destino en un feroz encuentro con un enigmático enemigo, del que no están a salvo ni los vivos ni los muertos.