100,000 first printing 100,000 ad/promo Liteary Guild main selection. Watchers by Dean Koontz A superior thriller (akland Press) abouta man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of 1. Though the climax packs a little less wallop than it deserves, this is the sort of thoroughly frightening and entertaining tale that has its readers listening for noises in the night. The encounter with the dog is the beginning of a tightly woven plot involving genetic manipulation that has created two extraordinary animals one is the dog, named Einstein, the other is a murderous hybrid called ""The Outsider.'' Hunted down by both the government and a professional killer who has learned the secret of the animals, Travis, Einstein and Nora Devon, a lonely woman befriended by man and canine, attempt to escape their pursuers all the while knowing that a confrontation with The Outsider is inevitable. When Travis Cornell, Koontz's appealing hero, encounters a stray dog while hiking, he quickly realizes that the animal is most unusual and that something terrifying is stalking them both. Cross Lassie with E.T., add a touch of The Wolfen and a dash of The Godfather, and you get a sense of some of the ingredients in this supernatural thriller, which should move Koontz ( Strangers a notch closer to Stephen King's high-rent district. It is a masterpiece of story-telling by Dean Koontz about how love transcends all boundaries - including that of species.
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