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City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 2) (original 2005; edition 2005)

by Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman

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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of?

Dean Koontz's City of the Night

They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created??and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios??once Frankenstein??can stop the engineered killers he??s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time ??monster? and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O??Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion?? s centuries-old history began as Victor??s first and failed attempt to build the perfect human??and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor?? s malignant mind could have imagined??an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind?? s collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us.

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Title:City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 2)
Authors:Dean Koontz
Other authors:Ed Gorman
Info:Bantam (2005), Mass Market Paperback, 496 pages
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I'm impressed and pleasantly surprised. I've been burned by Koontz novels in the past and had all but given up on him. You can only read so many books with a compelling story and characters that flops in the end before you look elsewhere.

This is different. I'm a sucker for the Frankenstein story, so a re-telling sounded intriguing. Even better that I know Koontz is a heck of a storyteller. He doesn't disappoint here AND it didn't run out of steam at the end. I have my fingers crossed for the second book. ( )
  GordCampbell | Dec 20, 2023 |
This is one of those books that was on my radar since it came out six years ago. Glad I finally read it. I was pleasantly surprised by the book's depth of emotion and I had no idea that its structure is like a contemporary mystery/thriller.

I enjoyed the characters, but what most appealed to me was the yearning to be human that some of Frankenstein/Helios's creations feel. These man-made, meticulously programmed, and supposedly soul-less creatures longing to have meaning in their life and a purpose other than the intention for which their creator made them, inspired me to continue trying to be a better person. Anyone else have that reaction?

And I love that one of the characters is named Jonathan Harker. Prodigal Son is an action packed, fun read for those of us who grew up on the old Frankenstein and Dracula flicks as well as the lovers of the literature that spawned the movies. I hope it inspires people who haven't read Mary Shelley to pick up her book. ( )
  Chris.Wolak | Oct 13, 2022 |
I am enjoying this series so far. It is, like most of his books, a quick easy read. This series has Frankenstein and his monster alive in our times. Frankenstein is creating a new race to take over the world. This is book number two. His plans are starting to fall apart and there are a couple of the old race that know what is going on and are trying to fight the new stronger race to save the world. Of course, there is a child in the story that was at risk. He may still be, I will find out in the third book which I will read soon.
I got this book from the Friends of the Pine River Library free book shelf. ( )
  KyleneJones | Apr 25, 2022 |
the first one was better, but it wasn't bad. it was quick and moves the story to the next chapter ( )
  tmbookluvr | Dec 3, 2019 |
This entry in the series takes off where book one stopped. Onto book 3 to see where things end up at the end of that one. Hoping it will be as much of a page turner as these first 2 books were. We shall see. I must say I do like what Koontz has done with the place and doing some updating to the story line and expanding it quite nicely. ( )
  krgulick | Jun 19, 2019 |
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Relax. Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, volume one of which, Prodigal Son (2005), was a pulse-pounder all the way, is going to be a trilogy. But don't expect to relax all that much. This book cooks, no second-volume doldrums anywhere in it. Its short, punchy chapters, 80 in all, seem to reflect the whole saga's TV miniseries origins in their jump-cutting between plot trajectories, but that seeming also owes much to the visualizability, so to speak, of everything in the book. But enough about technique. The manufactured young man who went AWOL from 200-plus-year-old Victor Helios-ne-Frankenstein's labs in Prodigal Son turns out to be not the only improved Frankenstein monster who is behaving strangely. Since he was created autistic for experimental purposes, he may be the least strange of the lot. Some of his "normal" fellows are mutating a la Alien, none more spectacularly than Victor's body guard. Deucalion, the original monster, now greatly humanized, especially ethically and morally, realizes that the mutations portend a much larger wave of breakdowns among the so-called New Race. That bodes very ill for a New Orleans heavily salted with Victor's creations, all of them programmed to kill mere humans at Victor's command, which the mutants no longer obey. Meanwhile, NOPD detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison prepare to hunt Victor down, even as a couple of hit-person New Racers track them. And then there is Erica Five, Victor's brand-new "wife," learning to be a better spouse by exploring hubby's house. Smart dialogue and cutting-edge scientific notions (Deucalion has learned how to teleport) are the oh-so-sweet icing on this delectable thriller's irresistible, devourable cake.
 
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"In a sort of ghastly simplicity, we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."

---C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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Having come to life in a thunderstorm, touched by some strange lightning that animated rather than incinerated, Deucalion had been born on a night of violence.
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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of?

Dean Koontz's City of the Night

They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created??and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios??once Frankenstein??can stop the engineered killers he??s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time ??monster? and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O??Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion?? s centuries-old history began as Victor??s first and failed attempt to build the perfect human??and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor?? s malignant mind could have imagined??an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind?? s collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us.

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