Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747258333 ISBN 13: 9780747258339

Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, 1999

One by one, the children of Moonlight Bay are disappearing. No one knows if they are dead or alive. Christopher Snow, suffering from the rare disorder xeroderma pigmentosum, has glimpsed the dark and torrid secrets of the small-town community where he has spent his entire life. And only he has the key to the truth - a truth that could only exist in the genetic chaos of Moonlight Bay.

Review:

"The night is a kingdom of predators, in which every hunter is also the hunted." The night is also the favored realm of Christopher Snow, whose XP (xeroderma pigmentosum) renders him extremely vulnerable to all forms of light. When an old flame's son is abducted, Snow and his faithful dog Orson track them to Fort Wyvern, an abandoned military base--and the site of genetic research experiments gone awry. To recover the boy, Snow and his friends must unearth Wyvern's darkest secrets. And what--or who--is Mystery Train? Keith Szarabajka is a skillful reader, alternating between breathless terror and deadpan irony. Though long, Seize the Night will certainly hold your interest. (Running time: 12 hours, 10 cassettes) --C.B. Delaney

From the Inside Flap:

Performance by Keith Szarabajka
10 cassettes: 0-553-47901-6
12 Hours

Moonlight Bay, California.  A safe, secluded small town that is at its most picturesque in the gentle nighttimes that inspired its name.  Now, somewhere in the night, children are disappearing.  The police cannot be trusted since they were long ago corrupted by a greater authority, hidden behind the supposedly shuttered walls of the adjacent military base, Fort Wyvern.

Christopher Snow, victim of a rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light, believes the lost children are still alive and is convinced the disappearances have everything to do with the catastrophic effects of secret research conducted deep within Fort Wyvern.  Forced to live in the shadows, he knows the night world better than anyone, and sets out to find the missing five-year-old son
of a former sweetheart.

Never before in Dean Koontz's phenomenal writing career has he created a character quite like Christopher Snow--a creation so complex, so fascinating that the author has felt compelled to return to him.  Listeners of Fear Nothing already know why.  Those who meet him for the first time in Seize the Night will soon join leagues of others whose imaginations have been touched by this unique character and the extraordinarily eerie world of Moonlight Bay.