Prodigal Son
Where to buy Prodigal Son books online?
Product Description
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic tales of all time. If you reflect you know the tale, you know only half the truth. Get ready for the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of…
Dean Koontz’s Prodigal Son
Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself–and that just may be where this case ends up. For the no-nonsense O’Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-ancient conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are more—and less—than human. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For their quarry isn’t merely a homicidal maniac—but his deranged maker.
From the Paperback edition.
Buy Cheap Prodigal Son Online
Related posts:
Having never read a Koontz novel before I was looking forwards to my first one. So I selected this up. Boy, what a disappointment. For 469 pages all I kept asking myself is what is going on? Why is this happening and what’s the point of the entire book? In fleeting, I felt the entire book was a huge mess. Koontz co-wrote this book with a name else and it reads like it. It seems that these two guys were locked in separate rooms and wrote two different tales and never bothered to talk to one another while they were writing.
Characters pop up and storylines are laid out that lead to nowhere. One character, who happens to be autistic, can only walk while he completes imaginary crossword puzzles in his mind. Sounds appealing but his tale has no plot or ending whatsoever. I have no thought how this characted is connected to the additional characters in this book.
For nearly the first 50% of this book deals with pieces of what I was hoping would be a much larger, more coherent puzzle. I was waiting for something to take place but it never did. If Frankenstein is still alive than only a few people were murdered and it seems no one really cared except two cops. Hardly what I would call planet shaking considering who the killer(s) could be.
I reflect I’ll pass on any further Koontz novels for now. I was never a huge fiction fan but friends of mine talked me into hard the waters with Koontz, Patterson, Brown, etc. I reflect I’ll go back to by non-fiction books for awhile and save this tripe for the beach.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Koontz can write. But he sucks as a tale teller. Books are supposed to have a COMPLETE tale in them, no? Well this one has no ending. No end at all. These 2 detectives are clued in to the fact that Dr Frankenstein exists, and is making his “perfect race” to some day kill off all humans. That’s it. You meet the original, now educated and “at one with the universe” Frankenstein’s monster, you meet the main characters, and they have some conflict. That’s the whole “tale” in this book, which it really isn’t because the basic fundamentals of a tale are a beginning, middle, and end.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I thought this was Book 3 in the series. The title is not clear that it was not.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The repetition of information and slow pace gave this book the feel of elementary school reading material. This series could have been condensed into one book and it would have been the better for it. I gave it two stars for the infrequent plot twists that got me through the book rather than throwing it away.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Thank you for the quick manner of language, and the fantastic fee and very excellent condition of the buy and the packaging of such, you have a pleased customer!
BB
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5