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Velocity

by Dean Koontz

Bartender Billy Wiles faces a dilemma. If he doesn't take a typewritten note, which he finds under the windshield wiper of his car, to the police and get them involved, a lovely blond schoolteacher will die. If he does take the note to the police, an elderly woman will die. The choice is his. He has six hours to decide.

Billy shows the note to a policeman friend, but the police don't get involved because no crime has been committed. Within 24 hours, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered.

So begins Billy Wiles unwilling descent into the nightmare world of a psychopathic killer. Soon, another note arrives delivering a new set of instructions, a new ultimatum, a new deadline, and, once again, Billy's actions (or his failure to act) will determine who the next victim will be.

With planted evidence implicating Billy in the crimes, he no longer has the option of contacting the police. As the notes come faster and the deadlines grow shorter, as Velocity picks up speed, Billy must rely on his own cunning and deductive reasoning skills to identify and track down the sadistic killer before the killer's final victim is scheduled to die.

With dozens of published novels, many of which have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, Velocity author Dean Koontz has earned the right to be called America's preeminent writer of thriller fiction. He lives in southern California with his wife, Gerda, and their golden retriever, Trixie.

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Review by Phil Hanson

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