What The Night Knows - Hardcover

Koontz, Dean R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553807722 ISBN 13: 9780553807721

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2010

Synopsis

In the late summer of a long ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy.

Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, recreating in detail Blackwood’s crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family—his wife and three children—will be targets in the fourth crime, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer.

As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return.

Here is ghost story like no other you have read. In the Calvinos, Dean Koontz brings to life a family that might be your own, in a war for their survival against an adversary more malevolent than any he has yet created, with their own home the battleground. Of all his acclaimed novels, none exceeds What the Night Knows in power, in chilling suspense, and in sheer mesmerizing storytelling.

About this title

Review:

"Compelling, terrifying and fresh . . . one of the best horror novels in years."--The Associated Press

"[Koontz] seems to know us, our deepest foibles and fears."--"USA Today"

"Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler."--"The Times "(London)

Compelling, terrifying and fresh . . . true terror in print. Associated Press
Deliberate, highly supernatural . . . one of Koontz's weightiest performances. "Booklist" (starred review)
You ll find yourself genuinely unnerved. . . . On a dark winter s night, what more do you need? "Richmond Times-Dispatch"
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Satisfyingly spooky and unrelentingly foreboding. "USA Today""

-Compelling, terrifying and fresh . . . true terror in print.---Associated Press
-Deliberate, highly supernatural . . . one of Koontz's weightiest performances.---Booklist (starred review)
-You'll find yourself genuinely unnerved. . . . On a dark winter's night, what more do you need?---Richmond Times-Dispatch

-Satisfyingly spooky and unrelentingly foreboding.---USA Today

"Compelling, terrifying and fresh . . . true terror in print."--Associated Press

"Deliberate, highly supernatural . . . one of Koontz's weightiest performances."--Booklist (starred review)

"You'll find yourself genuinely unnerved. . . . On a dark winter's night, what more do you need?"--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Satisfyingly spooky and unrelentingly foreboding."--USA Today

About the Author:

Dean Koontz is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever Anna, and the enduring spirit of their golden, Trixie.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0553807722
• ISBN 13: 9780553807721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 442