Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A guy walks out of a bar. There’s a piece of paper on the windshield of his car that reads: “If you don’t take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher somewhere in Napa County. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours.” Hmm … decisions, decisions.
If that premise intrigues you – and admit it, it does – you’ve gotta read Dean Koontz’s newest novel, VELOCITY. The protagonist, Billy, thinks the first note is a joke, but evidence to the contrary soon arises. Then there’s another note, and another, and another – each time with the stakes raised higher, the choices more difficult. To say much more about the plot would ruin it.
True to its title, VELOCITY moves like lightning, propelling you through its pages with driving narrative force. Koontz (unfairly pegged as “just” a horror writer) is a master of suspense. It’s one thing to leave a reader guessing until the very end, and another thing to do that while moving at the speed of light, as Koontz does here, as does often.
Related posts:
- The Face of Fear
- Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Book Two – City of Night
- Koontz’s next another ODD one
- Transgressions
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