By the Light of the Moon (Dean Koontz)

Category : Novel

English

Format : paperback

496 pages

ISBN : 0-553-58276-3

Publisher : Bantam books 2002

Dimension : 175x104x26mm

Weight : 234g

Condition : very good

Book Summary :

Dylan OConnor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. Hes on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious doctor, injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must fleebefore the doctors enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.

Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mysteryand wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Sheps path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that theyll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jillys classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air.

Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom theyre running fromor why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is thats coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenesjust minutes before the crimes take place.

What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work