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The Husband (edition 2007)

by Dean Koontz

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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes—and the pulse rate—higher than any other author. Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel ever, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself—and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever.

What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill?

We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he’s standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.

Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. He has Mitch’s wife and he’s named the price for her safe return. The caller doesn’t care that Mitch runs a small two-man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum. He’s confident that Mitch will find a way.

If he loves his wife enough. . . Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself. He’s got seventy-two hours to prove it. He has to find the two million by then. But he’ll pay a lot more. He’ll pay anything.

From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is a thriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist, every shock, every revelation…until it lets you go, unmistakably changed. This is a Dean Koontz novel, after all. And there’s no other experience quite like it.
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Info:Bantam (2007), Paperback, 448 pages
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Review: The Husband by Dean Koontz. 4* 10/15/2022

This is a great book by one of my favorite writers. The book is so well written and exciting. I think Koontz develops his characters with the thought of them feeling like real reality. The story is about Mitch who runs a two man landscaping business. His wife has been kidnapped and the bad guys want two million dollars and they would let her go.

Well why Mitch! He has no money, only a small business, and he loves his wife intensely. There are so many twist and turns around trying to find the money. Despite these bad guys they think they have everything under control, Mitch feels the anxiety building within himself to do something, even as far as killing these guys. The suspense will keep building as the story goes on from one sub-plot to another. ( )
  Juan-banjo | Dec 12, 2022 |
I really enjoyed this book a lot. I hadn't read Koontz in a long time and had forgotten how good he could be. This is definitely different than most of his books. A very good and quick read with lots of twists and turns.
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  KyleneJones | Apr 25, 2022 |
An easily-read thriller populated by characters who are interesting, then unbelievable, then interesting again. The story takes on one or two twists too many but the ride is enjoyable. ( )
  Lucre | Jan 6, 2022 |
3.5 stars

Mitch is a gardener… makes less than $40,000/year. What a shock when he gets a phone call from his wife (and her kidnapper) that she is being kidnapped and they expect Mitch to come up with $2 million! And to prove they aren’t kidding around, they shoot the pedestrian walking his dog across the street from where Mitch is on the phone…

This started off really tense. It slowed down in the middle, though there were definitely some surprises thrown in there. Although the end ramped up again somewhat with a race against time, it didn’t pull me back in like I was pulled in at the start, but I’m not sure why that was. I did listen to the audio, and for the most part it kept my attention. ( )
  LibraryCin | Oct 5, 2021 |
It was mediocre at best. Not at all deserving of all those good reviews. I definitely do not recommend it. ( )
  rachelbd43 | Jul 21, 2021 |
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Courage is grace under pressure. (Ernest Hemingway)
That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love. . . . (Emily Dickinson)
Dedication
This novel is dedicated to Andy and Anne Wickstrom, and to Wesley J. Smith and Debra J. Saunders: two good husbands and their good wives, also good friends, who always brighten the corner where they are.
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A man begins dying at the moment of his birth.
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Agitated spiders plucked silent arpeggios from their silken harps, and the wind was never silent.

A Soldier - His Prayer:

Stay with me God. The night is dark,
The night is cold: My little spark
Of courage dies. The night is long;
Be with me, God, and make me strong.
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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes—and the pulse rate—higher than any other author. Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel ever, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself—and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever.

What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill?

We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he’s standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.

Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. He has Mitch’s wife and he’s named the price for her safe return. The caller doesn’t care that Mitch runs a small two-man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum. He’s confident that Mitch will find a way.

If he loves his wife enough. . . Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself. He’s got seventy-two hours to prove it. He has to find the two million by then. But he’ll pay a lot more. He’ll pay anything.

From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is a thriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist, every shock, every revelation…until it lets you go, unmistakably changed. This is a Dean Koontz novel, after all. And there’s no other experience quite like it.

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