-
Your next favorite book
is waiting.
by Dean Koontz
Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. 'If you don’t take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours.'
"Graphic, fast-paced action, well-developed characters and relentless, nail-biting scenes show Koontz at the top of his game." - Publishers Weekly
"Koontz is a master storyteller, and his novels are usually startlingly original...Billy is an intelligent and highly sympathetic hero in this unrelenting story." - Library Journal
"The themes aren't subtle, but they are worth considering--the importance of connection and community, the enduring power of love, and the validity of modern art. Velocity is a fast, entertaining read." - School Library Journal
"[W]ill Koontz...at last apply his genius not just to tasty seasonal sprouts of suspense, but to something sustaining and memorable? " - Kirkus Reviews
This information about Velocity was first featured
in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added.
Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.
deankoontz.com
International bestselling author Dean Koontz was only a senior in college when he won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition. He has never stopped writing since. Koontz is the author of The Bad Weather Friend, After Death, The House at the End of the World, The Big Dark Sky, and seventy-nine New York Times bestsellers, fourteen of which were #1: One Door Away from Heaven, From the Corner of His Eye, Midnight, Cold Fire, The Bad Place, Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Intensity, Sole Survivor, The Husband, Odd Hours, Relentless, What the Night Knows, and 77 Shadow Street. Hailed by Rolling Stone as "America's most popular suspense novelist," his books have been published in thirty-eight languages and have sold over five hundred million copies worldwide. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he now lives...
... Full Biography
Author Interview
Link to Dean Koontz's Website
If you liked Velocity, try these:
by Daisy Goodwin
Published 2012
Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, The American Heiress marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James.
by Charles C.. Mann
Published 2006
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
by Mark Kurlansky
Published 2005
Brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of the pivotal year of 1968, when television's influence on global events first became apparent, and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the world.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home: but unlike charity, it should end there.
Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!
Can you name the title?
Test your book knowledge with our daily trivia challenge!
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
