To prove that they are serious, the kidnappers direct Mitch to look at the dog walker across the street. In this novel, The Husband, Mitchell Rafferty, a landscape contractor, receives a phone call telling him that his wife Holly has been kidnapped, and unless he can come up with two million dollars in a very short time, she will be killed. However implausible these dangers might have been and however high the body count, Koontz made the action seem real and inevitable, and few readers could resist the delicious excitement of imagining "what if…" As good and evil engaged in a life and death struggle, Koontz's well developed characters faced the ultimate challenge, and against all odds, succeeded. Inexorably, these average Joes and Janes would be sucked into a vortex of danger from which their escape seemed more and more unlikely. In those books, Koontz had me absolutely riveted, reading as fast as I could to find out what would happen next to characters I could identify with, as they faced bizarre problems and traumatic challenges. I've had a soft spot for the horror/suspense/mysteries of Dean Koontz ever since I read Strangers (1986) and Watchers (1987). An important truth hid from him, hid not in shadows, hid not behind the boxed holidays, but hid from him in plain sight. "More than flies, worse than spiders, something loomed.
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