The Face of Fear, Dean Koontz
The Face of Fear, Dean Koontz
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The Face of Fear

Author: Dean Koontz

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2013


Synopsis

Don’t Look DownBecause you’re trapped on the 40th floor of a deserted office building by a psychopath called “The Butcher.”Don’t Look DownBecause you’re an ex-mountain climber and a fall from Everest left you with a bad leg and a paralyzing fear of heights. Don’t Look DownBecause The Butcher has slaughtered the guards and short-circuited the elevators—the stairways are blocked, and for you and the beautiful woman with you, there’s only one escape route.Don’t Look DownBecause 600 feet of empty space are looking back at you.

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 Delee on June 10, 2019

I am one of those smiley, sarcastic, cynical types- who sees the glass half empty in a lot of cases, but for some reason that doesn't spill into my world of books. I tend to star graciously giving a book or/author a pass on all sorts of things others don't. So what better person to buddy-read Koontz......more

Goodreads review by Supratim on August 06, 2017

I started Dean Koontz with his book Intensity. It was fantastic. I read a couple of his other books later – they were decent but not great. When I came across this book in a second hand book shop – the cover and the blurb piqued my interest. A serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher, is on the loose in......more

Goodreads review by Karl on February 25, 2019

There was adequate suspension and tension, but this was diluted by the fact that the plot and character development was thin. The book felt incomplete.......more

Goodreads review by Maciek on March 20, 2011

This old (1976) Koontz novel is basically a made for TV film; a man and woman try to escape from a dangerous criminal. What sets it apart from countless other paperback thriller sold at drugstores and airports is the concept: the whole novel plays out in an skyscraper, and the stairs and the elevato......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 23, 2022

A brutal killer known as The Butcher is stalking and brutally dismembering women in New York City. When the police enlist the help of clairvoyant Graham Harris, the horrifying images of the Butcher’s crimes replay in Harris’s mind, sometimes even at the moment they are happening. Then he sees the mo......more