![]() ![]() Sounds pretty good, right? Lonely guy has a chance encounter with a very smart dog who draws him into conflict with something sinister. ![]() What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled golden retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. ![]() Let’s start with the plot premise, which his publisher presents in this way: I’m also interested in what novelists (and editors) can learn from what Koontz does so well here. The editor in me can’t help wondering what’s so special about this story to an author who has written so many really good novels-really good best-selling novels. He also believes many readers will think it to be his best, no matter how good any other books he has written-or will write in the future-may be. ![]() Dean Koontz is a very funny guy who while contemplating his future as a geriatric (bunny slippers are involved) says he expects to feel then as he does now: that Watchers is the most satisfying book he’s ever written. ![]()
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