Shadowfires, Dean Koontz
Shadowfires, Dean Koontz
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Shadowfires

Author: Dean Koontz

Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer

Unabridged: 17 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/03/2022


Synopsis

A haunting hair-raiser resurrected with a NEW recording and NEW narrator.“His prose mesmerizes…Koontz consistently hits the bull’s-eye.” –Arkansas Democrat-GazetteRachel's request for a quick and clean divorce enraged her husband. She’d never seen Eric so angry, so consumed by pure and terrifying hatred. Then, in the heat of the moment, Eric was killed in a traffic accident. Shocked and relieved, Rachel had nothing left to fear. Until Eric's body disappeared from the morgue—and suddenly, Rachel is being stalked by someone who looks just like her dead husband.

About Dean Koontz

Author Dean Koontz was born in Everett Pennsylvania in 1945. He has used various Pen names such as, Aaron Wolfe, Brian Coffey, David Axton, Deanna Dwyer, John Hill, K.R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols, Anthony North, Owen West and Richard Paige. His accomplished occupations include novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and poet. Most people were not aware of his many Pen names and various talents in literature besides novelist. Koontz genres of choice are suspense, horror and science fiction thrillers. He has had 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks making it to #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list. According to the Dean Kootnz official website, he has sold more than 450 million copies of his books.

A little known fact about Dean Koontz is that he had hair transplantation in the late intos. Many of his novels are set in or around Orange County, California where he lives with his wife Gerda, in Newport Coast in an estate named Pelican Hills. His reported annual salary is $25 million.1990


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kimberly on July 30, 2022

Deliciously creepy This is an older Koontz book but, as one would expect, creepy enough for all fans. Genetic modification, corrupt government agents and some very endearing characters make for an enjoyable read! Good ole creepiness.......more

Goodreads review by Craig on April 19, 2023

Shadowfires is a novel by Dean Koontz that was published in 1987 under his pseudonym Leigh Nichols. It was the last novel to be published as by Nichols, and in fact was the last book by Koontz to be published under a pen name. (Well, the last that's he's acknowledged so far, at least.) It's a very n......more

Goodreads review by Warren on May 31, 2021

"Shadowfires" has more in common with those B-movie features from the '50s filmed in someone's backyard out in the California desert, and in particular, this story reminds me of Robert Clarke's "The Hideous Sun Demon." If you like those kinds of creature features, the prolific Dean Koontz has a book......more

Goodreads review by David on March 28, 2017

In the late 1980s, just after the publication of this book, Dean Koontz decided to consolidate his pseudonyms and just publish everything as himself. He was not at peak popularity, but getting close. Koontz made a deal with Dark Harvest, a small publishing company nobody has cared about in years, loc......more

Goodreads review by Laurie (barksbooks) on June 04, 2013

This was one of the earlier Koontz novels that I somehow missed in my youth. It tells the tale of a genetic genius named Eric who, after an ugly argument with his soon to be ex-wife Rachel, dies in an accident. But this is a Koontz novel so you know he doesn't stay dead . . . Before long Rachel and h......more