Well, if you"re going to write genre novels, you might

as well cover every genre. This is Koontz" first, and

really only, attempt at a straight hardboiled-style

thriller. A loose-knit gang of would-be thieves have a

plan to hold up a racetrack on a day when there will

be at least two million dollars on the premises.

Simple, easy to understand, with some nice plot twists

and excellent characterization. Koontz takes a

jaundiced look at the excesses of the seventies and

the excesses of thriller writers like Spillane all in

one gulp.



This is one of the longest novels Koontz wrote before

becoming a superstar, and one gets the feeling he was

testing his expansiveness legs, as it were.

Unfortunately, it doesn"t work quite as well here as

it does in much longer books (e.g. Whispers or The

House of Thunder); the first fifty pages, especially,

are slow as molasses. Once it picks up, though, it

picks up fast.



This may well be the hardest Dean Koontz novel on the

planet to find. It"s worth searching out, but the

prices will probably scare you more than most of his

later novels.








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