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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Michael Mace says that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time when, in the midst of catastrophe, one thing went right. I guess you could look at it that way. The "catastrophe" was almost like calling dropping an atomic bomb a "catastrophe". Opps! What it was seemed to be was not in any way to have been an accident...not of any dimension. It was a government-sponsored microbial infection that swept through the headquarters of the Beautification Research Project, killing 55 people...no...wait... make that 54, since Michael, the security chief, somehow came back to life, and... that’s not all folks. To start with Michael has acquired the power to tap into all sorts of chipped objects and devises from cellphones to supercomputers. You can probably see where this is headed. He has the ability to read their data instantly and can also alter the records from great distances. He finds that he is the perfect savior for accountant Nina Dozier...Michael’s best friend that genius immunologist Shelby Shrewsberry, had hired. Lota of very smart, yet very dumb people, making dumber choices, in this story. Michael is in love with Nina but before he could confess his love for her, he was killed in the "lab accident". Enter Aleem Sutter, who is the very same gangbanger who abandoned Nina years ago after getting her pregnant.... now he wants back into her life so he can make sure that John, their 13-year-old son, maintains his father’s reputation by joining a gang. No "Father of the Year" award here. Of course, Aleem is no match for Michael, who faces an altogether more powerful adversary: Durand Calaphas, another genius who works for the Internal Security Agency, and knows all about that microbial catastrophe and still holds a grudge from an episode years ago that branded his older brother, virologist Dr. Gifford Calaphas, a traitor. So many 'baddies" to try to keep up with and they are all mega geniuses. Dean Koontz is a master storyteller. I've read his books and watched movies made from them for more years than I'm going to share here...his stories and characters almost always "work". In this one he particularly shines at providing downscaled dialogue for Aleem and his peeps...otherwise the average reader would be lost...and provides memorable portraits of the many "walk-on" characters. The actual plot is another matter. There is just way too much happening with way too many people that it's happening to. I gave it 3 stars...after all it WAS Dean Koontz...it wasn't a bad story...and I really, really wanted to love it. I did like parts of it, but I believe it may have been more out of loyalty to this author who has given us From the Corner of His Eye, Tick Tock, The Odd Thomas books, and so many, many others, than it was for this actual book itself. Dean Koontz fans will certainly want to give it a try. ( ) no reviews | add a review
"Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished--including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he--or anyone else--has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatly admired. Although what Michael does for Nina is life changing, his actions also evoke the wrath of John's father, a member of one of the most violent street gangs in Los Angeles. But an even greater threat is descending: the Internal Security Agency's most vicious assassin, Durand Calaphas. Calaphas will stop at nothing to get his man. If Michael dies twice, he will not live a third time. From the tarnished glamour of Beverly Hills to the streets of South Central to a walled estate in Rancho Santa Fe, only Michael can protect Nina and John--and ensure that light survives in a rapidly darkening world"-- No library descriptions found. |
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