The House of Thunder, Dean Koontz
The House of Thunder, Dean Koontz
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The House of Thunder

Author: Dean Koontz

Narrator: Laural Merlington, Mel Foster

Unabridged: 9 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/29/2007


Synopsis

A sanity-twisting Koontz classic about a traumatized woman and the terrifying place she might never escape.“Koontz is brilliant.” –Chicago Sun-TimesSusan Thornton watched in terror as her lover died a brutal death in a college hazing. And in the four years that followed, the four young men who participated in that grim fraternity ritual also died violently—or so she thought. Twelve years later, Susan wakes in a hospital bed. Apparently involved in a fatal accident, she can’t remember who she is or why she is there. All she knows is that her life is unfolding into a menacing nightmare—and that the faces that surround her, are those of the four men involved in that murder years ago.Have the dead come back to life? Or has Susan plunged into the abyss of madness? With the help of her neuro-surgeon, she desperately clings to her sanity while fighting to uncover who—or what—could be coming for her.

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

-Thriller de consumo con mezcla de subgéneros.- Género. Novela (dejémoslo ahí porque pasan cosas y …). Lo que nos cuenta. En el libro La casa del trueno (publicación original: The House of Thunder, 1982), Susan Thorton despierta en un hospital de Oregon con problemas de memoria que le impiden recordar......more

Goodreads review by Angel

An excellent story! Review to come.... That’s all.......more

Goodreads review by Craig

The House of Thunder was published in 1982 under Koontz's Leigh Nichols pseudonym. It's a suspenseful hospital romance story about a woman who wakes up from a coma with amnesia and battles the idea that she has gone mad with the help of her doctor, with whom she (of course!) has a passionate affair.......more

Goodreads review by Lexy

This book was very good I had to put it down a couple of times because it was so intense.......more