Breathless - Dean Koontz

Breathless

By Dean Koontz

  • Release Date: 2009-11-24
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 317 Ratings)

Description

In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow into light . . . and into an encounter with mystery. That night, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady’s isolated home, waiting to make their approach.

A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring to her door all the forces of a government in peril.

At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to begin a descent into darkness. . . . In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable. . . . On a Seattle golf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murder. . . . Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek toward his destiny.

In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the moment between one turn of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and mystery. It is a journey that will leave all who take it Breathless.

Reviews

  • So many feelings

    5
    By Kate&T
    Thank you for this book, Dean Koontz!
  • Great Characters

    5
    By Bbb!!??::;;66
    Love the story telling, characters and plot
  • Starts strong ends with a shrug

    2
    By WLanceHunt
    An oddly unsatisfying read. With a strong start fixed in three apparently unrelated storylines, there is solid tension. One story line remains essentially aloof from the rest of the novel, but for a single, throwaway moment when a main character from the cornerstone story shows up and is put in danger. For about a page. Then that guy’s storyline sort of floats off into space, after having introduced danger and blood and conspiracy from time to time. The cornerstone story has its mysteries and intrigues, though in the end it feels as benevolent space aliens came to earth to save us. There are a couple of other storylines that brush up against the main one, but have nothing significant to add to. A strange mixed salad of stories of widely varying quality.
  • Breathless

    5
    By age dis
    I liked everything about this book I read it twice
  • Pie In The Sky a better title

    3
    By robin snipe
    Wishful thinking. Evil incarnate seems to be the change with leaders like Trump, McConnell and the GOP destroying our democracy
  • Great book

    5
    By Mark-strat
    Very different, very interesting.
  • Whatever happens, the future is the only way back."

    5
    By GrandpaJackr
    Dean did it AGAIN! Not knowing how, he brought all together. He is an amazing writer and this is an amazing book. A MUST read...
  • Let down..

    2
    By Metaldogz
    I'm a fan of DK but I have to say that this is certainly not DK's best. While its certainly readable, not sure why its a NYTBS. The subplots build up towards an 'explosive' finale that is more sparks than explosion which left me with a bland taste in the mouth as I realized: "That's it? After all that build-up?"
  • Disjointed

    1
    By MikcolR
    Very boring and No depth to the characters.

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