A bold, raucous narrative that moves at lightning speed.

Koontz’ most audacious pulp novel to date. But this time Victor has a mysterious, powerful new backer, and he and his army are more formidable, their means and intentions infinitely more deadly, than ever before. Within hours Deucalion will come together with his old allies, detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison, Victor’s engineered wife, Erika Five, and her companion Jocko to confront new peril. Yet an unshakable intuition tells him that Victor lives-and is at work again.

Deucalion-Victor’s first, haunted creation-saw his maker die in New Orleans two years earlier. Before the sun rises, the town will be under full assault, the opening objective in the new Victor Frankenstein’s trajectory of ultimate destruction. The stranger is in the vanguard of a wave of intruders who will invade other homes…offices…every local institution, assuming the identities and the lives of those they have been engineered to replace. In the dead hours of the night, a stranger enters the home of the mayor of Rainbow Falls, Montana. Lost Souls (Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein #4) Witty characters provide relief from the story's dark undercurrent, though Koontz knows, perhaps better than ever, how to scare his readers without resorting to gory details.”- Publishers Weeklyīuy the book from Amazon (affiliate link) “In this fast-paced third installment of his Frankenstein series, Koontz continues his modern-day reimagining of Mary Shelley's horror classic.

But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor’s malignant mind could have conceived–an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining. Deucalion’s centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless vision–and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein #3)Īs a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor’s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human.

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