By Dean Koontz
Bantam Books, 2010. 442 pages. Horror
John Calvino is a police detective and very good at what he
does. John has a story that he has told no one—except his wife—and there are
pieces that he’s withheld from her. 20 years ago and hundreds of miles away a
serial killer slaughtered four families in a small town. The murderer was
stopped and killed by the last survivor of the fourth family: John Calvino, age
14. The particular details of each gruesome murder are now playing out again.
Each set of murders was exactly 33 days apart. The number of family members in
each family matches up with the families murdered 20 years earlier. John has to
find some way to stop an unstoppable murderer, for he knows that his very own
family has been marked for murder.
There are certainly things about this story that are
completely inexplicable—but these contribute to the
eeriness and the terror of the story. You know that a story like this has got
to end well--but as Koontz develops the plot the likelihood of a happy ending seems to dwindle
miserably.
SML
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