Christine Scavello's life turns into a nightmare when her son becomes a target for a group of religious fanatics who claim that the boy is the Antichrist and will stop at nothing in their efforts to kill him.

"In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers a masterwork of page-turning suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation as a chronicler of our worst fears-and best dreams. In The Taking he tells the story of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their neighbors as familiar streets become fog-shrouded death traps. Gripping, heartbreaking,...

Moonlight Bay, California is a peaceful, picturesque small town until children begin disappearing. The police aren't much help since they've been corrupted behind the shuttered walls of adjacent military base, Fort Wyvern. Christopher Snow is convinced that the children are alive and that their disappearances have to do with secret research conducted deep within Fort Wyvern. But there are extremely violent and powerful forces protecting Fort Wyvern,...

"Two years after the cataclysmic events that sent him journeying into mystery, Odd Thomas, the intrepid fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, has traveled full circle, back to his beloved home town of Pico Mundo and the people he loves. He has come to save them--and perhaps humanity--from the full flowering of evil it is his destiny to confront, as he draws ever closer to the truth of the world and his place in it. Stronger, wiser than...

Intuition compels Odd to attend the Eventide Festival, where thousands gather every year for three days and nights to celebrate the outr . As Odd finds himself among nihilistic celebrants with sinister intentions, Eventide Festival proves to be a little bit Woodstock and a lot of Hell...

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...

"A call in the middle of the night summoned psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey out into the rain-swept streets of Los Angeles. The police had found her husband--beaten to death. But what of her daughter, Melanie, whom he had kidnapped six years earlier? At the brutal murder scene, the police lead Laura into her husband's makeshift lab-and open the door to a rising tide of terror that has trapped Melanie in its midst."--P. [4] of cover.