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Loading... The Face (original 2003; edition 2004)by Dean Koontz
Work detailsThe Face by Dean Koontz (2003)
None.  mephistia | Apr 6, 2013 |  "The Face" is my second go at Koontz work and it has done nothing but increase my interest on his work. With a great and memorable vilan, this book is an easy and extremely enjoyable reading experience with a bit of humor, a lot of characters, which are revisited many times by Koontz throughout the book and the always present supernatural, all in all a great story hard to put down. A great read. (  ) ricardob | Mar 31, 2013 | More detective novel than Koontz's usual thrillers. Ethan Truman is head of security of the actor known as The Face of Hollywood. When his boss starts getting weird packages Ethan has to track down who and where they are coming from before harm can occur to his bos and his bosses son. Now a bad way to spend an afternoon in the sun. ( ) Skooshie | Oct 11, 2011 | A very good and very long Dean Koontz book. Definitely not a one sitter like some of his others. I really enjoyed the blend of old school cop chasing down leads, with the supernatural of the story. Although there were more than a few edge of your seat moments, this was really more of a drawn out mystery of what the heck is going on which I really did enjoy. ( ) LouCypher | Jan 14, 2011 | At first, it seems like a regular story about an ex-cop that is the head of security of the most famous (and very rich) actor in contemporary Hollywood. He is known as "the Face". Ethan (our head security guy) has a mystery to solve, since someone has been sending "the Face" cryptic packages over the last few weeks. In his attempt to solve this mystery, Ethan ends up seeing his own death, brushes with the supernatural, and seeing his estranged best friend after he supposedly died. This novel is typical Koontz, with a blend of mystery, suspense and the supernatural. Koontz is true to his form, he blends the natural world with elements of the supernatural. The book is a bit slow, but is somewhat necessary to set up the characters and scenes to give us backgrounds to the bigger story and adds to the atmosphere of the overall theme. I like his descriptiveness of the scenes which supplies the minds eye with a vivid picture of what's going on. Although this book could probably have been a bit shorter, it's still a good read. (  ) jphillips3334 | Apr 21, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0553584480, Mass Market Paperback)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 and chilling novel, where real and imagined monsters walk the streets, ghosts travel through mirrors, and the devil makes house calls. Stalked by both real and supernatural evil, the bright and sensitive Fric, virtually orphaned by his A-list Hollywood parents, and the brave but disillusioned former detective Ethan Truman, himself suffering from the loss of his wife, must rely on their wits and each other to escape a dark and disturbing fate.The supernatural lurks just beneath the surface of the "real" in Koontz's novels, and The Face is no exception. Ghosts, angels, demons, child predators and serial anarchists run rampant in Koontz's tale--the unsuspecting reader never knows what is real or imagined until the characters themselves know--creating a disorienting and frightening experience, and one that is vintage Koontz. Whether it be the real-life "agents of chaos" who roam the world creating mayhem and death or the phone lines that carry words of the dead to the living, this is Koontz at his most powerful and terrifying. In The Face, Koontz has created a modern fable for adults, taking the bones from tales of old and breathing new life into the characters. Clearly written for adults, The Face nevertheless channels the wit and wisdom of Aesop as well as the violence and villainy of the Brothers Grimm. While Koontz's penchant for elaborately singsong descriptions can be grating, ultimately it lends this tale its folkloric quality, i.e. "The June-bug jitter, scarab click, tumblebug tap of the beetle-voiced rain spoke at the window, click-click-click." In this fable, the world is a menacing and threatening place for adults and children alike, and the naïve and uninformed go trip-trapping through life with no notion of the trolls that lurk in the dark. The moral of this story is that, good or evil, you will get what is coming to you; it's up to you to succeed or fail for you alone decide your path punishment or redemption. --Daphne Durham (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:52:30 -0500) When a Hollywood star becomes the target of a twisted killer, ex-cop Ethan Truman confronts the secrets of his tragic past and premonitions of his own impending violent death as he struggles to solve the macabre riddles of a killer. (summary from another edition) |
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