Hideaway HC Dean R. Koontz Putnam 1992 1st printing

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Hideaway Hardcover
by Dean Koontz (Author)

He was clinically dead after the accident?but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife approach each day with a new appreciation for life.

But something has come back with Hatch from the other side. A terrible presence that links his mind to a psychotic’s, so that a force of murderous rage courses through him.

Koontz’s latest thriller sits at the intersection of the weird and the ordinary. Once again, he explores a “what if” scenario in a most satisfying fashion. In this case, a near-death survivor accidentally carries a piggy-backing evil spirit through an open door from the afterlife. Hatch Harrison, the typical good-guy hero, is revived by a brilliant team of doctors more than an hour after drowning. Strange visions and half-waking dreams soon convince him that his recovery is not at all normal. His fears are soon magnified when people who have annoyed him are murdered, and he knows that he is somehow responsible. Paralleling the story of Hatch’s recovery is the unfolding revelation of a young man so evil that ordinary people cannot imagine his existence. As he skulks about selecting victims to murder and mutilate, a bizarre bond develops between the two men. Gory incidents tumble one after another as the two men become locked in first a psychic and then a physical battle between good and evil. The violent climax is symbolically set in an abandoned amusement park where at last the true duel identity of the murderer is revealed. Once again, evil is resoundingly defeated, but as any Koontz fan knows, the victory is only temporary.

Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult

Hatch has just survived a car wreck. Well, actually, technically he DIDN’T survive it–Hatch was clinically dead for 80 minutes. When he comes back, there is SOMETHING with him, a presence in his head…a mysterious, murderous character who calls himself Vassago, and yearns for nothing more than death and destruction…

But Hatch is determined to continue his life. He and his wife adopt a child. They live happily. But Vassago is closing in. He, too, is aware of the connection with Hatch, and he would relish the opportunity to ruin Hatch’s life, and kill everyone he loves…

“Hideaway” is one of Koontz’s all-time best…and also, as he points out, the first to receive hate-mail. Still, don’t let a few letters get you down; “Hideaway” moves along at breakneck speeds, like most of Koontz’s books, and features characters that are so real, you are genuinely afraid for–or of–them. This is one of the best books by one of the best authors out there, and shouldn’t be passed up by suspense fans.

Few spots along edges of pages. Otherwise book is in near mint condition. 1st printing. 0-399-13673-8.

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Book has a few stains along the edge of pages, other than that, near mint.