The Good Guy, Dean Koontz
The Good Guy, Dean Koontz
14 Rating(s)
List: $22.48 | Sale: $15.74
Club: $11.24

The Good Guy

Author: Dean Koontz

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/29/2007


Synopsis

Timothy Carrier, having a beer after work at his friend’s tavern, enjoys drawing eccentric customers into amusing conversations. But the jittery man who sits next to him tonight has mistaken Tim for someone very different—and passes to him a manila envelope full of cash.

“Ten thousand now. You get the rest when she’s gone.”

The stranger walks out, leaving a photo of the pretty woman marked for death, and her address. But things are about to get worse. In minutes another stranger sits next to Tim. This one is a cold-blooded killer who believes Tim is the man who has hired him.

Thinking fast, Tim says, “I’ve had a change of heart. You get ten thousand—for doing nothing. Call it a no-kill fee.” He keeps the photo and gives the money to the hired killer. And when Tim secretly follows the man out of the tavern, he gets a further shock: the hired killer is a cop.

Suddenly, Tim Carrier, an ordinary guy, is at the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions, the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer far more powerful than any cop…and as relentless as evil incarnate. But first Tim must discover within himself the capacity for selflessness, endurance, and courage that can turn even an ordinary man into a hero, inner resources that will transform his idea of who he is and what it takes to be The Good Guy.

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

AudiobooksNow review by Alexander on 2008-07-11 17:11:03

This was a great book. I bought it for my wife after I listened to it. She is an avid reader, but I have never seen her read a book faster. She literally read it over night.

Goodreads review by Baba on February 04, 2023

Horror writer Koontz comes up with a conspiracy thriller and it's a good read. Tim Carrier, a mason and a man with a past accidently intercepts a payment to a contract killer and finds himself embroiled in a chase across the country, as the real killer seeks to complete his contract. As time goes by......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on December 09, 2007

Keeping with the Koontz theme. I finished The Good Guy over the weekend. The cover (front and back) doesn’t tell you much. I didn’t read the inside part of the dust jacket. I just picked it up. I figured Koontz = Good read. I was right. At this point in my Koontz reading extravaganza I’ve made a few......more

Goodreads review by Paul E on May 03, 2020

Warning: Caution this book depicts graphic scenes of rape and murder. One of Koontz's better novels, he keeps his typical writing style for the obscure and unnecessary wording to a minimum, which makes it so much more palatable. It may be too graphicly violent, but I understand he is trying to creat......more

Goodreads review by Keith on November 20, 2022

Great suspenful novel. Koontz is always consistent 👏......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on March 06, 2011

Timothy Carrier is minding his own business in a bar, when he is approached by another man and offered a packet containing $10,000 to kill someone. Soon thereafter, another man, the real killer enters and mistakes Tim for the client. Tim tries to buy off the killer with half of the money only to dis......more


Quotes

“Dark suspense leavened by just enough sentiment.... Fans of Koontz will recognize and relish his trademark, gently ironic dialogue and firmly fleshed characterizations.”—Kirkus Reviews

“A thriller so compelling many readers will race through the book in one sitting.... , the novel’s breathless pacing, clever twists and adroit characterizations all add up to superior entertainment.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

"White-knuckle suspense as gripping as any Koontz has ever written."—Booklist

“Shades of Alfred Hitchcock.... Get ready for tension as only Koontz can create it.”—Sacramento Bee

“Dean Koontz is a master of his craft.... [He] will make you think twice about the high price of being an innocent bystander.... Chalk up another one for the good guy, who knows how to search for a small patch of light as darkness threatens all around.”—New Orleans Times Picayune


Awards

  • Stephen King's Best Books