Harry Lyon is a Santa Monica cop who becomes involved when a stranger, a man calling himself Junior Cain, sets a plot in motion. After a cop is killed, Harry and his partner Connie Gulliver find a strange man who claims to have been given a deadly power by an unknown source. The villain is a man with a clock-like pattern of speech, nicknamed the Ticktock Man, who commits horrifying acts with a supernatural ability. Dean Koontz mixes thriller, horror and dark humor in a fast, violent novel where good and evil collide.
Readers who like Koontz's mix of action and the supernatural will find a pulpy page-turner.
Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Curious Generalist. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
