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Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished—including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he—or anyone else—has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatly admired.

Odd Thomas forsøger at slippe for sine voldsomme og uhyggelige syner ved at flytte ud til kysten. Her håber han at kunne leve et stille og tilbagetrukket liv, uden at politiet ustandseligt forsøger at få ham til at hjælpe med at opklare forbrydelser. Men så let går det ikke. Odd har ikke...

Odd har altid været plaget af sine overnaturlige evner. Clairvoyance er ikke noget, man sådan kan styre, og det får Odd til at søge tilflugt langt fra civilisationen i et kloster i High Sierras forblæste bjerge i Californien. Han befinder sig atter i kampen mellem det gode og det onde, og hans overnaturlige evner er nødvendige for at sikre, at den gode side vinder.

På en parkeringsplads foran et supermarked bliver Christines seksårige søn Joey udsat for et mordforsøg af en skør gammel dame, der kalder sig Mother Grace. Christine er forfærdet, og nu følger det ene mordforsøg efter det andet. Mother Grace er leder af sekten Tusmørkets Kirke, som mener, at Joey er Antikrist, og han derfor bliver nødt til at dø.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Dean Koontz is at the peak of his acclaimed powers with this major novel. A young boy, a musical prodigy, discovering life’s wonders—and mortal dangers. His best friend, also a gifted musician, who will share his journey into destiny. His remarkable family, tested...

Acknowledged as “America’s most popular suspense novelist” (Rolling Stone) and as one of today’s most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and...

Pico Mundo is een stadje in de Mohave-woestijn. Thomas, een kok in een plaatselijk restaurant, heeft een ongewoon talent: hij voelt het als de dood nabij komt. Daarom woont hij in the middle of nowhere: Pico Mundo zou veilig moeten zijn. Maar al dagenlang heeft hij nachtmerries over een slachtpartij. Als de toekomstige moordenaar het restaurant bezoekt, begrijpt hij dat hij moet ingrijpen, en snel ook.

It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye. What it triggers in Nameless is uncontrollable rage and brutal retribution. What it reveals is a clue to his forgotten past. Is it a breach on his handler’s part? Or a test? Either way, something’s not right.

2021 SOVAS Award Finalist for Audiobook Narration—Short Story Anthology—Best Voiceover Behind a wall of amnesia, he can’t remember anything. Maybe he can’t bear to. Nameless knows only the mission: Directed by the mysterious Ace of Diamonds, he travels the country, turning predators into...

This could be the most important mission of Nameless’s life. Because it’s putting him on a collision course with his own past and the nation’s future. The target: a fortified redoubt in the golden hills of California, the hub of a new world order that’s unthinkably close at hand. The time has come for Nameless to face its designer: the nihilist mastermind behind the One Solution. It’s also time for Nameless to discover who he is and was, and what brought him to this fateful endgame. But will the truth be a breaking point? Or a turning point?

A terrorist attack in the news leaves Nameless reeling from a disturbing vision. But it’s not a glimpse of the future. It’s a recovered memory that’s opening a window into his mysterious past. Uncharacteristically forthcoming—and unexpectedly personal—Nameless’s handlers have no choice but to emerge from the shadows. The indoctrinating factions of his visions are growing in number. What’s more, their chilling symbol of totalitarian control is now linked to the highest powers in the country. 

Evie and her daughter, Asteria, are fleeing an abusive cult when they meet a stranger in an abandoned Arizona shopping mall. Fate hasn’t set Nameless on their trail. It’s a premonition, and a chance to make reparations for a failure from his past he can’t even remember. This time, Nameless must do everything in his power not to fail those who trust him with their lives.

Henry Siphuncle has a selfless mission: releasing his patients forever from their distasteful imperfections. It’s for their own good. And the world’s. Even Henry’s own wife didn’t survive his disgust. Nameless has tracked him across the country to an isolated rural community, where the residents are grateful for their new free clinic. For Henry, it might just be the end of the road.

 In a forgotten Cold War bunker, a cold-blooded arms dealer counts his cash and watches from a distance as cities collapse into violence. Pledged to stop him is a man without a past, guided by a teenage boy through the tunnels under the corrupted port city. With each stealthy move toward their target, the path ahead grows ever darker.

With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes—and the pulse rate—higher than any other author. Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel ever, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing...

Joey Shannon, an alcoholic whose life has been going nowhere for 20 years, returns to his hometown for the funeral of his father. As he leaves town, he gets a mysterious second chance to relive the night in 1975 when his life began its downward spiral: to both literally and figuratively take the road that he didn't originally take. On this road he is supremely tested by conflict with his successful and charismatic older brother P.J., by conflict between his cynicism and his lost faith, and by conflict between the ultimate good and evil.

A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz. An insane criminal threatens to destroy a family, and the police are powerless to protect them. For 14 years convicted rapist Max Cady nursed his hatred for Sam Bowden into an insane passion for revenge. He lived only for the day he would be free - free to track down and destroy the man who had put him behind bars. Murder was merciful compared to what Cady had in mind - and what Cady had in mind was Bowden's innocent and lovely teenaged daughter.

Hilary Thomas knew terror as a child, but never anything like this. He is hunting her with a sick desire more terrifying than hatred could ever be. And he is in her house again.

They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.

Die Augen der Finsternis von Bestsellerautor Dean Koontz ist ein packender Thriller um die Suche einer Mutter nach ihrem Sohn - eine Reise, die eine tödliche Bedrohung für die ganze Welt offenbart Ein Jahr ist vergangen, seit Tina Evans ihren Sohn Danny bei einem tragischen Unfall verloren hat. Als sie eines Morgens sein altes Kinderzimmer betritt, wartet an Dannys Kreidetafel eine Nachricht auf sie: NICHT TOT. Hat sich jemand einen makaberen Scherz erlaubt? Oder steckt ein anderer, ein unheimlicherer Grund dahinter?