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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Your typical Dean Koontz story: Ordinary Man finds ordinary life turned upside down out of nowhere by Pure Evil, in an event that is usually inexplicable and/or random. Most of book involves Ordinary Man being chased by Pure Evil. Along the way he finds or confirms his True Love. In the end, Pure Evil is destroyed, Ordinary Man is (re)united with his True Love, and everything ends happily.In Velocity, reclusive bartender Billy Wiles is minding his own business when he gets a note telling him that if he goes to the police, an old woman will be killed. But if he doesn't go to the police, a young woman will be killed. At first Bill thinks it's a joke, which of course it isn't. It goes on like that, with the deadlines getting progressively shorter and the choices more horrifying as Billy tries desperately to discover the identity of his tormentor while trying to protect his comatose fiancee. I figured out the identity of the killer pretty early on, but it was still a decent story. Makes me want to read more T.S. Eliot. (  ) melydia | Oct 28, 2009 |  1st Koontz read, I had always heard this man was a King rip-off. Not sure why I was looking through Koontz, probably looking for a good thriller, read the back flap and knew this was a must read. Flew through this book in a matter of days. This book will make a Koontz fan out of any reader of thrillers. (  ) Xero | May 18, 2009 | I bought this book when it came out and have read it three or four times already. I'm reading it again now. The story draws me in inexorably; it's like an obsession. I mull it over in my mind when I'm not reading it; then I am driven to read it again. (  )1  PoohGrandpa | May 12, 2009 | Once again we're back in Koontz's psychopath territory. No bad thing, since it's an original page turning premise. The plot is fast moving, mostly unpredictable and at times shocking. More so than any other Koontz book of late, this dark tale has the feeling that it's almost a screenplay. The scenes of horror and the quality of the cliffhangers would transpose very well to the silver screen (fingers crossed). The synopsis above is detailed and therefore no further explanation is needed, just buy the book and enjoy the read. Good stuff once again Mr. Koontz. ( ) SonicQuack | Apr 15, 2009 | As soon as I read the side flap on this book I knew I had to read it. It was recommended to me by a good friend of mine, and I put it off for a while because Dean Koontz has never been a favorite author of mine. I tried to read a couple books of his a few years ago that were also recommended to me by the same friend, and I couldn’t finish them. I have a hyper-active imagination (which means it works really well!) and Koontz’s books are too creepy for me. But, when I read the synopsis of this book, I just had to pick it up. I’m not regretful that I did; then again, I’m not thrilled. Like I expected, this book... To read the rest of my review, go to: http://paperbackpassion.wordpress.com... (  ) JessicaLeigh4 | Apr 6, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553588257, Mass Market Paperback)Dean Koontz’s unique talent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul is nowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece that pits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speed limits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel, Velocity would break them all. Get ready for the ride of your life.Velocity Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don’t take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours. It seems like a sick joke, and Bill’s friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it’s Bill’s fault: he didn’t convince the police to get involved. Now he’s got another note, another deadline, another ultimatum…and two new lives hanging in the balance. Suddenly Bill’s average, seemingly innocuous life takes on the dimensions and speed of an accelerating nightmare. Because the notes are coming faster, the deadlines growing tighter, and the killer becoming bolder and crueler with every communication—until Bill is isolated with the terrifying knowledge that he alone has the power of life and death over a psychopath’s innocent victims. Until the struggle between good and evil is intensely personal. Until the most chilling words of all are: The choice is yours. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:03 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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