cmaw63's Full Review: Dean R. Koontz - The Face of Fear
What is your greatest fear? Spiders crawling from their hiding places to inject poison into your bloodstream while you sleep? Snakes slithering through the grass to wrap themselves around you, choking the breath from your body? Standing at the edge of a cliff, so high, that you know if you fall there will be no possible way you can survive? What is the face of your fear?
For Graham Harris, it is falling. A former mountain climber, he has fallen from a cliff on Mt. Everest, leaving his body crippled, his mind even more so. Unable to participate any longer, he leads a life on the edge of his sport by publishing a magazine about climbing, from his 40th floor office in Manhattan.
Graham has a special talent. He is clairvoyant. When Graham recovers from the injuries he sustained in the fall, he realizes he can "see" things. Not your average visions...visions of devastating brutality. Graham volunteers to help police find the perpetrators of horrific crimes . This time he's helping Detective Preduski find "The Butcher".
The Butcher sexually assaults women, then leaves them laid open with his knife...their life's blood no longer flowing. His calling card? He eats a meal in the woman's kitchen, leaving the scraps on the table.
Aware of Graham's attempts to "see" him, The Butcher must kill him...and Connie Davis. Connie is the woman that has pushed and loved Graham to become physically and mentally stronger than he was after the accident. Now, that love has her trapped on the 40th floor of an office building with a madman after her.
In an exciting life and death race to the streets, Graham and Connie must try to outwit The Butcher and save their own lives.
2 Thumbs Up or Down? The Face of Fear kept me turning pages and interested. Dean Koontz, again, whips out characters that I liked to root for and against. The interactions between the major characters have real emotions that, while I was thinking them, was surprised to find them included in the book. It, also, has a twist towards the end that surprised me.
This is an average book, though. While, it's interesting and full of action...Detective Preduski and conveniently placed items got on my nerves. ("Oh no! We need a fork. Look honey, in the garbage there's a fork!" Not actually part of the story, but you get the idea.)
If you're a Dean Koontz fan, like I am, you will definitely want to read this book...just because he wrote it. If you're looking for a good book to keep you interested, without thoughts of "how convenient" or "he's a good guy and he still annoys me", pass on reading this one. There are better (and worse) Dean Koontz books to try. The Face of Fear gets one thumb up for the action and plot. It, also, gets one thumb down for too many parts annoying me.
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