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First Published:
Feb 1998, 391 pages
Paperback:
Dec 1998, 432 pages
Chris Snow discovers his mother was engaged in secret experiments on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters.
Enter a world unlike any other. A world of the night. A world created brilliantly by master
suspense novelist Dean Koontz. The world where his blockbuster novels Fear
Nothing and Seize the Night are set. Welcome to Moonlight Bay, California, home
of Christopher Snow.
Forced to live in the shadows, Snow knows the night world better than the dark adversaries
that stalk his quiet town. And along with his exceptional dog Orson, and his friends, Snow
will challenge those who try to take advantage.
When you live in the darkness of Moonlight Bay as Christopher Snow does, and you are
desperately trying to save the day, you abide by two guiding principles: fear nothing
and seize the night!
Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay. For
Christopher has made a strange peace with a very rare genetic disorder shared by only one
thousand other Americans, a disorder that leaves him extremely vulnerable to the light.
His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. It is
only at night that he is truly free. And then he witnesses a murder in the night--a murder
only he can solve.
While investigating the death of
his mother who was a scientist, Chris Snow discovers she was engaged in secret experiments
on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters. The
next he knows, the monsters come visiting and they are not friendly.
Chapter One
On the desk in my candlelit study, the
telephone rang, and I knew that a terrible change was coming.
I am not psychic. I do not see signs and portents in the sky. To my eye, the lines in
my palm reveal nothing about my future, and I don't have a Gypsy's ability to discern the
patterns of fate in wet tea leaves.
My father had been dying for days, however, and after spending the previous night at
his bedside, blotting the sweat from his brow and listening to his labored breathing, I
knew that he couldn't hold on much longer. I dreaded losing him and being, for the first
time in my twenty-eight years, alone.
I am an only son, an only child, and my mother passed away two years ago. Her death had
been shock, but at least she had not been forced to endure a lingering illness.
Last night just before dawn, exhausted, I had returned home to sleep. But I had not
slept much or well.
Now I leaned ...
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