Synopses & Reviews
Takahiro OLeary has a very special job
working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelinesas many and as varied as anyone could imagine. A great giguntil information he brought back gave Axon the means to maximize profits by changing the past, present, and future of this world.
If Axon succeeds, Tak will lose Samira Moheb, the woman he has loved since high schoolbecause her future will cease to exist. A veteran of the Iraq War suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Samira can barely function in her everyday life, much less deal with Taks ravings of multiple realities. The only way to save her is for Tak to use the time travel device he borrowed” to transport them both to an alternate timeline.
But what neither Tak nor Axon knows is that the actual inventor of the device is searching for a timeline called the Beautiful Landand he intends to destroy every other possible present and future to find it.
The switch is thrown, and reality begins to warphorribly. And Tak realizes that to save Sam, he must save the entire world
Review
The most ambitious of Dean Koontz's books. (Columbus Dispatch)
Review
“A razor-sharp, nonstop, suspenseful story.”—
The San Diego Union-Tribune “A great story…the most ambitious of Dean Koontzs books.”—Columbus Dispatch
“The take-a-deep-breath ending alone is worth the price of the ticket.”—People
“A great story, sympathetic characters, and enough suspense to keep the pages flying.”—Detroit News
Synopsis
Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. His partner urged him to surrender to the chaos of life. But Harry believed in order and reason. Then one fateful day, he was forced to shoot a manand a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challenged Harry Lyons sanity
Ticktock, ticktock. Youll be dead in sixteen hours
Dead by dawn
Dead by dawn.”
Includes an afterword by the author
Synopsis
Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. Then one fateful day, he was forced to shoot a man--and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challenged Harry Lyon's sanity:
"Ticktock, ticktock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn..."
Synopsis
A cop races against time to prevent his own death in this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
Harry Lyon is a rational man, a cop who refuses to let his job harden his soul. His partner urges him to surrender to the chaos of life. But Harry believes in order and reason. Then one fateful day, he's forced to shoot a man--and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes utteres the haunting words that challenge Harry Lyon's sanity...
"Ticktock, ticktock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn..."
Synopsis
Takahiro OLeary has a very special job
working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelinesas many and as varied as anyone could imagine. A great giguntil information he brought back gave Axon the means to maximize profits by changing the past, present, and future of this world.
If Axon succeeds, Tak will lose Samira Moheb, the woman he has loved since high schoolbecause her future will cease to exist. A veteran of the Iraq War suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Samira can barely function in her everyday life, much less deal with Taks ravings of multiple realities. The only way to save her is for Tak to use the time travel device he borrowed” to transport them both to an alternate timeline.
But what neither Tak nor Axon knows is that the actual inventor of the device is searching for a timeline called the Beautiful Landand he intends to destroy every other possible present and future to find it.
The switch is thrown, and reality begins to warphorribly. And Tak realizes that to save Sam, he must save the entire world
About the Author
Dean Koontz was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Bedford. He won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition when he was twenty and has been writing ever since. Mr. Koontz's books are published in 38 languages. Worldwide sales total more than 175 million copies, a figure that currently increases at a rate of more than 350 million copies a year. Dean and his wife, Gerda, live in southern California.