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Graham Harris is a gifted clairvoyant, and during a television interview, he 'sees' a murder being committed. He knows that the killer is the man the police have named the Butcher - the slayer of nine young women.
Learning of the psychic identification, the Butcher begins to stalk this 'witness' to his crime, and traps Harris and his girlfriend at night in a vast forty-two-storey business building, hunting them relentlessly from floor to floor...
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Dean Koontz was born into a very poor family and learned early on to escape into fiction. He lives in southern California with his wife, Gerda and a vivid imagination.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book combines the crime and thriller genres masterfully with a good dose of occult. He lays evil bare and makes you see it from the gutwrenching and horrified perspective of the psychic. Evil's all around us, we'd all like to help, but would we like ringside seats as witnesses. Your breathing will not return to normal once Koontz brings you immediately into the fold and hold of this book, and its protagonists unwilling participation in the hunt for the butcher.
This is one of his older books and is a wonderfully conceived book. There is no feeling of datedness about this book, though it undoubtedly is. Wonderfully told, masterfully sold story about undisguised, revelled-in evil which one man is forced to see at risk to him and his. Superb story.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Whilst undoubtedly, a fast-paced and interesting read, I don’t think this is anywhere near the quality of Koontz today. To an extent this is obvious: this book was first published in Britain in 1978. Koontz has naturally moved onwards and upwards. Perhaps if you read the old Koontz novels first, you don’t notice the difference so suddenly.
This novel struck me as a little short on plot, and all a bit superficial, convenient. The scene is almost entirely set in the same place, and I don’t think Koontz gives us enough emotional and personal detail about the killers. Don’t get me wrong: it’s well worth reading (Koontz always is). Yet, I came away thinking the film (if there were one) would have been better than the book; a feeling I haven’t experienced with Koontz before.
Buy it, but if you’ve read the Koontz of the new millennium, don’t expect greatness. Expect only satisfaction.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Oh Mr Koontz. I've now read more than a dozen of your excellent novels. Both recent and older ones, like this, the Face of Fear, from 1977. Quere (note Irish spelling), one thinks, that such a versatile novellist should be mostly categorised in a horror genre, when most of his output tends towards thrillers - such as this.
It's a lovely suspenseful character driven thriller too, with a very well described final third where the lead characters are trapped in a very tall building with the killer on the inside and a blizzard on the outside. Koontz does lace his thrillers with a lick of the supernatural, and this isn't the first or last psychic he's written of, and he does like us to ride his male-female emotional roller-coaster. In fact, Koontz is a very competent handler of women characters, far better than many of his contemporaries, especially in these genres.
But Koontz also has surprises up his sleeves (and given how many novels he's thrown out of his rotary imagination, he must buy new shirts every other day to keep them all tucked away). You'll therefore attempt to match wits with him - and maybe get it right, maybe be turned upside down like a proper turnip, as I was. I'm used to his tricks but he caught me out, which is skilful for a book written 33 years ago.
It's a fast read, Face of Fear. You'll probably find all you need to give you a faster heart rate, and Koontz's gift is to make you find the book sticks to your hand, and you try to put it down but the damned thing clings to you and one short little cliff-hanger after another passes as you try to let it go before light breaks through and you've failed to go to sleep. Then its all over, and you need to buy one more Koontz and begin all over again - the yin to this yang is the Vision.
Enjoy it. But don't work late for a while after.
It's a lovely suspenseful character driven thriller too, with a very well described final third where the lead characters are trapped in a very tall building with the killer on the inside and a blizzard on the outside. Koontz does lace his thrillers with a lick of the supernatural, and this isn't the first or last psychic he's written of, and he does like us to ride his male-female emotional roller-coaster. In fact, Koontz is a very competent handler of women characters, far better than many of his contemporaries, especially in these genres.
But Koontz also has surprises up his sleeves (and given how many novels he's thrown out of his rotary imagination, he must buy new shirts every other day to keep them all tucked away). You'll therefore attempt to match wits with him - and maybe get it right, maybe be turned upside down like a proper turnip, as I was. I'm used to his tricks but he caught me out, which is skilful for a book written 33 years ago.
It's a fast read, Face of Fear. You'll probably find all you need to give you a faster heart rate, and Koontz's gift is to make you find the book sticks to your hand, and you try to put it down but the damned thing clings to you and one short little cliff-hanger after another passes as you try to let it go before light breaks through and you've failed to go to sleep. Then its all over, and you need to buy one more Koontz and begin all over again - the yin to this yang is the Vision.
Enjoy it. But don't work late for a while after.
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The first Koontz book I ever read and my personal favourite. It keeps you guessing, and never lets you go until "The End" is printed in bold. Read more
Published on 23 Dec 1999
Great great great!!!it's simply awesome!
A woman trying to find her child confronting terrible things.Only help:the vision of her son. Terrific ending!.
Published on 3 Mar 1999
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