Face - Softcover

Dean Koontz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007796668 ISBN 13: 9780007796663

Publisher: Publisher Details Unknown, 2016

Synopsis

The Face. As Hollywood's most dazzling star, he has the love of millions - but the hatred of one deeply twisted soul. Just before Christmas, the star has received six messages promising a very nasty surprise.

The Face's security chief is Ethan Truman, an ex-cop with a troubled past. He's found the messenger but not the source of the threat, and he's worried. But not half as worried as he would be if he knew that Fric, The Face's ten-year-old son, was home alone and getting calls from "Moloch, devourer of children." The terrified boy is planning to go into hiding in his father's vast mansion - putting himself beyond Ethan's protection.

And Ethan may be all that stands between Fric and an almost unimaginable evil...

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Review

Ten-year-old Aelfric Manheim is home alone when he receives a call from a stranger with a simple and terrifying message, "There is trouble coming, young Fric...You're going to need a place to hide." Meanwhile, security chief for the Manheim estate, former detective Ethan Truman, is tailing a "deader than dead" body that got up and left the morgue when he vividly experiences his own death--twice. In The Face, Dean Koontz delivers yet another spellbinding and chilling novel, where real and imagined monsters walk the streets, ghosts travel through mirrors, and the devil makes house calls. Stalked by both real and supernatural evil, the bright and sensitive Fric, virtually orphaned by his A-list Hollywood parents, and the brave but disillusioned former detective Ethan Truman, himself suffering from the loss of his wife, must rely on their wits and each other to escape a dark and disturbing fate.

The supernatural lurks just beneath the surface of the "real" in Koontz's novels, and The Face is no exception. Ghosts, angels, demons, child predators and serial anarchists run rampant in Koontz's tale--the unsuspecting reader never knows what is real or imagined until the characters themselves know--creating a disorienting and frightening experience, and one that is vintage Koontz. Whether it be the real-life "agents of chaos" who roam the world creating mayhem and death or the phone lines that carry words of the dead to the living, this is Koontz at his most powerful and terrifying.

In The Face, Koontz has created a modern fable for adults, taking the bones from tales of old and breathing new life into the characters. Clearly written for adults, The Face nevertheless channels the wit and wisdom of Aesop as well as the violence and villainy of the Brothers Grimm. While Koontz's penchant for elaborately singsong descriptions can be grating, ultimately it lends this tale its folkloric quality, i.e. "The June-bug jitter, scarab click, tumblebug tap of the beetle-voiced rain spoke at the window, click-click-click." In this fable, the world is a menacing and threatening place for adults and children alike, and the naïve and uninformed go trip-trapping through life with no notion of the trolls that lurk in the dark. The moral of this story is that, good or evil, you will get what is coming to you; it's up to you to succeed or fail for you alone decide your path punishment or redemption. --Daphne Durham

From the Back Cover

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

“Dean Koontz almost occupies a genre of his own. He is a master at building suspense and holding the reader spellbound.”
--Richmond Times-Dispatch

“Koontz has always had near-Dickensian powers of description, and an ability to yank us from one page to the next that few novelists can match.”
--Los Angeles Times

"Still the DEAN of suspense...a rewarding climax...you'll enjoy the ride."
--People Magazine

"Both terrifying and amusing, THE FACE is classic Dean Koontz--a blend of murder, mystery and wit...Koontz's dialogue is sharp, his characters multidimensional, and the plot is tight."
--The New York Daily News

"A modern Swift...a master satirist."
--Entertainment Weekly

Edition details

• Publisher: Publisher Details Unknown
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007796668
• ISBN 13: 9780007796663
• Binding: Paperback