Midnight [Paperback]

Dean Koontz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 4, 2011

A series of bizarre deaths draws Tessa Lockland and Sam Booker to Moonlight Cove, where they team up with natives Chrissie Foster and Harry Talbot to combat the evil that threatens the community. Reissue. NYT. K. "

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

"Despite some paper-thin characterizations and a predilection for the maudlin, Koontz's sense of pace and the dramatic are sure," observed PW. A horror story with science fiction underpinnings, this concerns an insane inventor whose bizarre experiment turns the sleepy California town of Moonlight Cove into a charnel house.
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From Library Journal

Four people are the last hope of Moonlight Cove, because one by one the rest of the citizens are changinginto boogymen, werewolves, mythical creatures, or something entirely new. They are the New People, willing victims of a seductive experiment in chemically induced evolution. They can transform their bodies at will and eliminate unproductive emotions, like grief and compassion. In fact, the only instinct left to the New People is self-preservation, and their only emotion is fear. And they want the rest of humanity to join them. Popular author Koontz ( Watchers , Lighting ) has again delivered a gripping horror thriller with well-drawn characters and plenty of suspense. Literary Guild selection. A.M.B. Amantia, Population Crisis Committee Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Berkley (November 4, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425118703
• ISBN-13: 978-0425118702
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (122 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,901,532 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hallucinagenic, creepy precursor to "Fear Nothing", April 24, 2000

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Tung Yin (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Midnight (Paperback)

Starting in the mid-1980s, Dean Koontz hit his stride with a series of terrific cross-genre novels, starting with "Strangers," which was about alien contact; "Watchers," which was about genetic engineering; and "Lightning," which was about . . . well, you'll have to read that on your own.

"Midnight" continues the trend, though it veers more toward horror than the others. The novel is set in a small town in Northern California, where an experiment has been transforming humans into "something else." An FBI agent and a ragtag group of survivors bands together to respond to the horror.

As with most of Koontz's books, there is a palpable sense of eerieness that pervades the novel. Although the book is not without its violent and occasionally gory moments, it is not stomach-churning; Koontz generates suspense and terror more through implication than explicit description.

Interestingly, Koontz recycled the central plotline here in the recent "Fear Nothing." (The setting changed from Moonlight Bay to Moonlight Cove.) The character in "Fear Nothing" is quite different, however, so you can't entirely predict the outcome from "Midnight." Still, if you like "Midnight," you should like "Fear Nothing," and vice versa. (Personally, I thought "Midnight" was creepier.)

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of his mesmerizing bests!, August 5, 2000

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Marco Aurelio - See all my reviews

This review is from: Midnight (Paperback)

That was one of the first books by Dean Koontz I've read, when I almost didn't know his writing, and I loved it.

This is the kind of book you read in only one blink. The characters and the plot are so huge, so deep and well-written that you feel as if you were there suffering and having fun with them.

Everything starts when a woman is killed by monsters that are something like gorillas. Then, her sister, a FBI officer, a retired policeman and a child who is being threatened by her own parents get together unexpectdly to solve the problems and save their own life.

MIDNIGHT is a book for lovers of the horror genre, the suspense and the thriller. It's a book you'll never forget because of its hugeness, of its power. Nowadays, Dean doesn't write this kind of book anymore, and yes, I miss that. This is the kind of book you could keep reading forever. If you haven't read that one yet, take it! If you haven't read a book by Dean yet and want to try him, that's a wonderful first step. The important is, read it! And never be able to forget this wonderful plot.

Marco Aurelio.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible Narrator!, July 21, 2004

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Mad Reveller "[e-mail]" (Delaware, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Midnight (Audio Cassette)

Avoid at all costs buying the audio version of the novel. The narrator over pronounces the words as if he's speaking to a deaf mute trying to read his lips. Ever worse, he has no dramatic qualities to his voice. It's just comple monotone. Awful.