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Summary: An outstanding book.
Review: In The Face of Fear right from the start it leaps you into the action of the book. You can't put it down, you just want to keep going and going. The tension, and thrill it gives you with each page blows you away and you want more! The suspence is awesome, the images put into your head are detailed to almost the point, and the courage he gives the characters feels like your right there with them surviving for life! Then when your done, you find yourself wanting to read it again, or another novel by Dean Koontz. He continues being my favorite writer, and no other book I have read compares to what education, and knowledge he gives back to his readers and fans. I strongly would reccomend getting this book, and giving it a try. Trust me its worth it.
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Summary: Scary because it could be all too real
Review: Koontz may not paint as vivid a word picture as, say, a Stephen King, but his monsters are all the more scary because they are frighteningly realistic. In this story, the killer, and the killings, are human monsters, the kind which might be lurking somewhere out there even now. The cold, calculated rational behind the killings is all too conceivable.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: Like most of Dean Koontz's books, you don't have to read too far before the story gets rolling. Trapped in a highrise rise building our hero, a psychic being stalked by a man referred to as "The Butcher" has no choice to rapell down the building, floor by floor in a winter storm. Does he make it? I could tell ya, but then that would ruin all the fun, wouldn't it. I will say this, the end is very surprising.
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Summary: Plummets after an initial leap of genius
Review: Meet the Butcher, a rapist with an unusual taste for violence, frighteningly strong with a warped sense of humour. He has to eat prodigious amounts to keep himself going, and -Deja vu is setting in. This sounds like a cross between Dean Koontz's other serial killers, the wry and interesting Edgler Vess and the confused clone Alfie. But wait a minute. We then meet a psychic who "sees" the murder of the Butcher's latest victim during a TV interview, a psychic who is suffering the effects of a mountain fall several years ago. Soon afterwards the Butcher latches onto him and his wife, pursuing them through the floors of a high rise building where climbing equipment is sold. Yes, you've guessed it. They have no option but to abseil down the side of the building - but the psychic is terrified. I'm sorry, we've seen this story before in several different formats. Koontz has just cobbled it together to make a new story. It makes for an entertaining half-hour, but other than that it's just traditional horror.
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Summary: Dangerous Visions
Review: Mountain climber Graham Harris left Everest with a crippled leg, a head injury and became clairvoyant. He's finished with climbing, is in love and he helps the police on occasion with his power to feel the traces after a murder. Graham is on a live TV show when he senses, than predicts that a serial killer, dubbed the Butcher, is going to kill again. The Butcher, not to pleased with Graham, puts him next on his list. This is a roller coaster ride of a book that I wasn't able to put down when I first read it, and I wasn't able to put it done when I read it again just last month. What a thriller? Reviewed by Stephanie Sane
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Summary: Towering Fear
Review: One of Dean's cleverest - and most suspenseful - straight thrillers. And one it's hard to say too much about, without giving away the game. A psychic helping the police out on a difficult serial-rapist case finds himself, and his girlfriend, the target of attempted murder by the culprit. The rapist/murderer manages to isolate the pair in an empty skyscraper over the holidays, and plays an elusive cat-and-mouse game with them - to the death. This one shoots out of a gun, like most of Koontz's early works, and doesn't let up for a second. It's a fast, easy, involving read. Koontz's style is minimalistic, telling virtually the entire story through dialogue and simply drawn action, shifting character perspective inventively to keep the reader guessing who the guilty party is. And even once that's known, he manages to slip in an extra surprise or two. This was made into a very good T.V. movie with Lee Horsley and Pam Dawber, which suffers in comparison to the novel due to the fact that it has to prematurely show what the book doesn't.
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Summary: Simple, Action-Packed Thriller
Review: Previously published under one of Dean Koontz's many pseudonyms (Brian Coffey), "The Face of Fear" is a simple, action-packed thriller that primarily takes place in a large, deserted New York office building during a snowstorm. This setup is contrived by a serial killer, Frank Bollinger (aka the Butcher), who is after a clairvoyant ex-mountaineer, Graham Harris, and his live-in girlfriend, Connie Davis. For the duration of the night, these two must try and escape the Butcher's strategic deathtrap before he finds them first. Granted, "The Face of Fear" isn't as complex and serious as some of Koontz's more recent novels, but this is still a fun read for suspense fans. You might even want to watch the TV movie that was made in the early 90s if you enjoyed this book.
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Summary: Simple, Action-Packed Thriller
Review: Previously published under one of Dean Koontz's many pseudonyms (Brian Coffey), "The Face of Fear" is a simple, action-packed thriller that primarily takes place in a large, deserted New York office building during a snowstorm. This setup is contrived by a serial killer, Frank Bollinger (aka the Butcher), who is after a clairvoyant ex-mountaineer, Graham Harris, and his live-in girlfriend, Connie Davis. For the duration of the night, these two must try and escape the Butcher's strategic deathtrap before he finds them first. Granted, "The Face of Fear" isn't as complex and serious as some of Koontz's more recent novels, but this is still a fun read for suspense fans. You might even want to watch the TV movie that was made in the early 90s if you enjoyed this book.
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Summary: The best suspense thriller ever.
Review: Respectfully disagreeing with some of the reviews of this book in this web page, I think it is the best thriller I have ever read. A true thriller is supposed to pull all stops. It's supposed to keep you hooked on to page one and if the author is supremely successful in his goal, you will pick up the book, read the first page, and as you keep going, you will find that you have not moved a single muscle, except for the thumbs turning the pages and the eyes following the words, until you finally put the book down at the last page. This is what happened to me, a person who's never read a whole book in one sitting, let alone a nearly 300 page book! Dean Koontz has succeeded with this story. To anyone who hasn't read it, I will not give you a detailed account of what the story is about because then I will be giving away the good parts, depriving you of a suspenseful read. Just picture this - a man with a limp and a woman are alone in an office building, trapped with a serial killer in the middle of a snowstorm. The only thing these weaponless, vulnerable victims can do to defend themselves from this gun - totting serial killer is to run and not look back. It is a long, suspenseful, and enjoyable chase scene. And I mean it when I say enjoyable. You will love it. For Dean Koontz, only the highest praises. Mr. Koontz, between you and me, I honestly think you outdid Stephen King on this one. As for writers out there who want to write suspense fiction - Dean Koontz is the master to learn from. Face of Fear is truly the most thrilling novel ever.
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Summary: Mediocre thriller not up to DK's usual standard of excellenc
Review: The book as a number of suspensful situations but it dosin't achieve the same quality as some of his other thrillers. Koontz is a great novelist but in this one he needs to work on charcter development. The descent fromt the building gets less and less suspensful with every page. The ending was a mediocre one at best and just downright stupid at worst. If youre looking for a dk book to read dont pick this one.
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