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Violence
Very heavy
Graphic supernatural violence; relentless threat; deaths depicted in detail
Language
Some
Moderate language in a cop thriller register
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The powerlessness of expertise against something that doesn't operate by any rules, two people who have to trust each other completely because no one else would believe them
What this book is about
Detectives Harry Lyon and Connie Gulliver arrest a drifter who calmly tells them they'll be dead by sunrise. They dismiss it. Then something supernatural begins stalking them — something linked to the drifter — and they realize the threat is real and utterly beyond their training. Dean Koontz's fast, propulsive horror-thriller operates as a pure chase novel, two cops running from a thing they cannot explain and cannot outfight with ordinary means.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
graphic violence and supernatural horror
sustained threat and pursuit
some intense scenes
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