Fear Nothing
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If you think you've got it tough, meet Christopher
Snow, the hero of Dean Koontz's novel Fear Nothing. Not only did
his parents die under mysterious circumstances, but he's also being
stalked by shadowy characters who want Snow to stop trying to find
out how they died--or else they'll bump off his remaining loved
ones (his supersmart, beer-lapping dog Orson; his best surfing
buddy Bobby; and his late-night deejay girlfriend Sasha). And as if
being on the lam in his own hometown, Moonlight Bay, California,
isn't bad enough, Snow has to outrun his pursuers without leaving
town. He has XP--xeroderma pigmentosum--a rare genetic affliction
that forces him to avoid light. Cumulative exposure to sun,
fluorescent lights, and the like will give him cancer eventually,
and he doesn't dare leave the place where he's skillfully "done the
mambo with melanoma" for all of his 28 years. Koontz makes the
night-town of Moonlight Bay come alive in this sometimes
pulse-pounding, sometimes funny, but mostly rather lyrical
thriller. Fans of Koontz's legendary 1986 novel Watchers will love
this book's similar theme: our hero and a loveable super-dog deal
with a genetic engineering laboratory run amok. Horror fans will
savor the evil mutant rhesus "millennium monkeys" who hunt Snow,
the few scenes of eloquent gore, and the plight of certain mutating
townsfolk who are, as they put it, "becoming" something very
creepy. Koontz gives Snow and Bobby a lingo that does for surfer
talk what Austin Powers did for the Swinging '60s, and his
metaphors are almost as madcap as Tom Robbins's: "As the chains of
the swinging light fixture torqued, the links twisted against one
another with enough friction to cause an eerie ringing, as if
lizard-eyed altar boys in blood-soaked cassocks and surplices were
ringing the unmelodious bells of a satanic mass." Sometimes
Koontz's style goes over the top and wipes out, surfer-style, but
for the most part, Fear Nothing will have readers bellowing
"Cowabunga!"
Autor: | Dean R. Koontz |
Nakladatel: | Headline Publishing Group |
ISBN: | 978-0-7553-5873-1 |
Rok vydání: | 1998 |
Jazyk : | Angličtina |
Druh: | 1 x kniha |
Počet stran: | 300 |
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