In the late summer of a long ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy.
Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, recreating in detail Blackwood’s crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family—his wife and three children—will be targets in the fourth crime, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer.
As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return.
Here is ghost story like no other you have read. In the Calvinos, Dean Koontz brings to life a family that might be your own, in a war for their survival against an adversary more malevolent than any he has yet created, with their own home the battleground. Of all his acclaimed novels, none exceeds What the Night Knows in power, in chilling suspense, and in sheer mesmerizing storytelling.
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Recensione:
“Compelling, terrifying and fresh . . . one of the best horror novels in years.”—The Associated Press
“[Koontz] seems to know us, our deepest foibles and fears.”—USA Today
“Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler.”—The Times (London)
From the Paperback edition.
L'autore:
Dean Koontz is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever Anna, and the enduring spirit of their golden, Trixie.
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- EditoreRandom House Large Print
- Data di pubblicazione2010
- ISBN 10 0739377973
- ISBN 13 9780739377970
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine575
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