Koontz ( Watchers , The Servants of Twilight ) has come up with an intriguing premise: Susan Thornton wakes up in a hospital after a serious car accident with an odd, selective amnesia. She can remember nothing of her job, yet she is stricken with fear when the company she works for is named. And that's not all. Thirteen years earlier, Susan had witnessed the murder of her boyfriend during a brutal fraternity hazing; her testimony sent one of the four men responsible to prison. Now she sees the same men, looking not a day older, walking the corridors of the hospital. Even worse, she has recurrent macabre hallucinations involving them and the decomposing corpse of her boyfriend. Susan doubts her sanity until she stumbles upon a bit of hard evidence right out of one of the ``hallucinations.'' Koontz's resolution, involving a complex Soviet plot, transforms the story from a cozy chiller to political thriller and may not please readers tired of cold war paranoia and propaganda. Others, however, should find this tale satisfying from start to finish. (Nov.)
A sanity-twisting Koontz classic about a traumatized woman and the terrifying place she might never escape.
“Koontz is brilliant.” -Chicago Sun-Times
Susan Thornton watched in terror as her lover died a brutal death in a college hazing. And in the four years that followed, the four young men who participated in that grim fraternity ritual also died violently-or so she thought.
Twelve years later, Susan wakes in a hospital bed. Apparently involved in a fatal accident, she can't remember who she is or why she is there. All she knows is that her life is unfolding into a menacing nightmare-and that the faces that surround her, are those of the four men involved in that murder years ago.
Have the dead come back to life? Or has Susan plunged into the abyss of madness? With the help of her neuro-surgeon, she desperately clings to her sanity while fighting to uncover who-or what-could be coming for her.
A sanity-twisting Koontz classic about a traumatized woman and the terrifying place she might never escape.
“Koontz is brilliant.” -Chicago Sun-Times
Susan Thornton watched in terror as her lover died a brutal death in a college hazing. And in the four years that followed, the four young men who participated in that grim fraternity ritual also died violently-or so she thought.
Twelve years later, Susan wakes in a hospital bed. Apparently involved in a fatal accident, she can't remember who she is or why she is there. All she knows is that her life is unfolding into a menacing nightmare-and that the faces that surround her, are those of the four men involved in that murder years ago.
Have the dead come back to life? Or has Susan plunged into the abyss of madness? With the help of her neuro-surgeon, she desperately clings to her sanity while fighting to uncover who-or what-could be coming for her.
The House of Thunder
The House of Thunder
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Product Details
BN ID: | 2940172666872 |
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Publisher: | Brilliance Audio |
Publication date: | 09/29/2007 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |