Velocity: a novel by Dean Koontz

No sleep for you tonight, dear reader!, September 11, 2005*****


Dean Koontz keeps getting better if that's possible. Where in the heck does he get his plots? When you pick up this book forget about getting any sleep tonight. When you put it down you'll never again pick up any note left under your windshield wiper. The chief character in this novel, Billy Wiles, a bartender in a local pub in the region where he grew up,finds a note on his windshield as he's leaving one night which propels him onto a path of no-win choices with horrible consequences. He faces choices devised by a twisted mind, choices no human should face, let alone Billy who has already had more than his share of tragedy in his life. Well, in this novel he's headed for a hell of a lot more before it's over. And, to survive, he has to outthink and circumvent the murderer setting a diabolical trap from which there appears no reasonable escape.