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Judeo-Christian traditions.”
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Rocky Mountain News
    “Koontz may like to scare readers, but he also likes to charm them. He succeeds at both efforts.”
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San Jose Mercury News
    “Dean Koontz incorporates mysteries into his plots, but his protagonists are more mysterious than the crimes they solve. He knows how to hook the reader … how to play with our expectations.”
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The Globe and Mail
    “His prose is rich and evocative. His characters are among the warmest—and most despicable—in modern fiction.”
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Ottawa Citizen
    “Koontz is writing right where popular culture swells into something larger, just as it did for Homer, Shakespeare, and Dickens. He’s got the gift.”
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The Australian
    “After three dozen novels and more than 200 million copies sold, Dean Koontz can still reach out and pull the reader into terror.”
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San Antonio Express-News
    “Koontz’s plots and characters are always compelling, absorbing, and beautifully drawn with a deep respect for the redemptive power of love.”
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Orange Coast
    “Dean Koontz … has the power to scare the daylights out of us.”
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People
    “Koontz’s superlative ability to balance sensationalism with psychological, emotional, and physical realism keeps readers riveted to the page.”
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Mystery Scene
    “A master of the [suspense] genre.”
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
    “Koontz is a master at creating believable characters and realistic dialogue…. He has few peers when it comes to snappy one-liners and irreverent humor.”
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    “Koontz knows how to turn the screws, and dealing with internal terrors, really takes the reader for a ride.”
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The Globe and Mail
    “Koontz long ago mastered the art of grabbing a reader’s attention and hanging onto it into the wee hours.”
    —Baton Rouge
Advocate
    “Koontz has a touching faith in the human spirit. [His] sure fire plotting and a roster of characters built out of painful tragedies make the pages move.”
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People
    “The poet laureate of paranoid pop fiction … You’d be hard-pressed to find a writer so tailor-made for the strange, paranoid, black-and-white century we’ve just entered.”
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The Denver Post
    “Koontz drops readers into the middle of the action, then doubles back to provide the background for his characters, deftly making us care about them…. [He] keeps the action moving at a frenetic pace.”
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Chicago Sun Times

Novels by DEAN KOONTZ
    Relentless • Your Heart Belongs to Me • Odd Hours The Darkest Evening of the Year • The Good Guy • Brother Odd The Husband • Forever Odd • Velocity • Life Expectancy The Taking • Odd Thomas • The Face • By the Light of the Moon One Door Away From Heaven • From the Corner of His Eye False Memory • Seize the Night • Fear Nothing • Mr. Murder Dragon Tears • Hideaway • Cold Fire • The Bad Place Midnight • Lightning • Watchers • Strangers • Twilight Eyes Darkfall • Phantoms • Whispers • The Mask • The Vision The Face of Fear • Night Chills • Shattered The Voice of the Night • The Servants of Twilight The House of Thunder • The Key to Midnight The Eyes of Darkness • Shadowfires • Winter Moon The Door to December • Dark Rivers of the Heart • Icebound Strange Highways • Intensity • Sole Survivor • Ticktock The Funhouse • Demon Seed
    DEAN KOONTZ’S FRANKENSTEIN
Book One: Prodigal Son
Book Two: City of Night
Book Three: Dead and Alive



This trilogy is dedicated to the late
Mr. Lewis, who long ago realized that
science was being politicized, that its
primary goal was changing from knowledge
to power, that it was also becoming
scientism, and that in the
ism
is the
end of humanity.

I am very doubtful whether history shows us one example of a man who, having stepped outside traditional morality and attained power, has used that power benevolently
.
    — C. S. LEWIS ,
The Abolition of Man

CHAPTER 1
    HALF PAST A WINDLESS MIDNIGHT ,