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Laura Shane leads a troubled life: she is orphaned, nearly molested twice and loses one of her closest friends in a tragic accident, all before her 13th birthday. Even worse events would have befallen Laura if not for the mysterious guardian angel who periodically appears with a bolt of lightning to miraculously rescue her. The "angel," Stefan, is in fact a time traveler who rides the "lightning road" through time to follow Laura throughout her adult life; unfortunately, Stefan himself is being chased through time by a pack of equally mysterious villains, and their pursuit of Stefan and Laura spans the second half of the novel. The secret of the lightning road provides an intriguing mystery early on, but once it is revealed midway through the book as a complicated hybrid of borrowed science-fiction and political-thriller conceits, the narrative runs out of ideas. In the lightning road, Koontz has created the kind of sci-fi puzzle whose convoluted logic must be explained at every turn, and the momentum of the central, fairly standard chase suffers thereby. The drama of an innocent bystander forced by events to run for his or her life is familiar to Koontz readers, but this time he leaves out a vital ingredient; while his evil predators are often his most interesting characters (as in this year's Watchers, or the earlier Whispers), the villains of Lightning tend toward cliches. The reader senses that the author got too caught up in the trick of the lightning, and inadvertently stole the thunder from the rest of this potentially intriguing tale.
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On the night of Laura Shane's birth, a stranger appears from the lightning to prevent her delivery's being botched by an alcoholic physician. Throughout Laura's childhood the stranger reappears at times of danger. He protects rather than threatens, yet menace seems to follow him. Thirty years later another storm flashes and the stranger collapses, shot, at Laura's door. Now Laura protects her erstwhile guardian from mysterious hunters. He reveals that he and the hunters are time travelers. Laura, quick-witted and brave, leads the way to a bloody showdown. The paradox in time travel's tampering with history provides an interesting twist in this gripping thriller by a popular writer. Literary Guild selection.A.M.B. Amantia, Population Crisis Committee Lib., Washington,
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Laura Shane leads a troubled life: she is orphaned, nearly molested twice and loses one of her closest friends in a tragic accident, all before her 13th birthday. Even worse events would have befallen Laura if not for the mysterious guardian angel who periodically appears with a bolt of lightning to miraculously rescue her. The "angel," Stefan, is in fact a time traveler who rides the "lightning road" through time to follow Laura throughout her adult life; unfortunately, Stefan himself is being chased through time by a pack of equally mysterious villains, and their pursuit of Stefan and Laura spans the second half of the novel. The secret of the lightning road provides an intriguing mystery early on, but once it is revealed midway through the book as a complicated hybrid of borrowed science-fiction and political-thriller conceits, the narrative runs out of ideas. In the lightning road, Koontz has created the kind of sci-fi puzzle whose convoluted logic must be explained at every turn, and the momentum of the central, fairly standard chase suffers thereby. The drama of an innocent bystander forced by events to run for his or her life is familiar to Koontz readers, but this time he leaves out a vital ingredient; while his evil predators are often his most interesting characters (as in this year's Watchers, or the earlier Whispers), the villains of Lightning tend toward cliches. The reader senses that the author got too caught up in the trick of the lightning, and inadvertently stole the thunder from the rest of this potentially intriguing tale.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
On the night of Laura Shane's birth, a stranger appears from the lightning to prevent her delivery's being botched by an alcoholic physician. Throughout Laura's childhood the stranger reappears at times of danger. He protects rather than threatens, yet menace seems to follow him. Thirty years later another storm flashes and the stranger collapses, shot, at Laura's door. Now Laura protects her erstwhile guardian from mysterious hunters. He reveals that he and the hunters are time travelers. Laura, quick-witted and brave, leads the way to a bloody showdown. The paradox in time travel's tampering with history provides an interesting twist in this gripping thriller by a popular writer. Literary Guild selection.A.M.B. Amantia, Population Crisis Committee Lib., Washington,
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
white eel, programming board, red curb, main lab Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fat Jack, Palm Springs, Stefan Krieger, Big Bear, Willy Sheener, Lightning Road, Bob Shane, Laura Shane, San Bernardino, Miss Keist, Sir Tommy, Aunt Thelma, Thelma Ackerson, Orange County, Chief's Special, Beverly Hills, Santa Claus, Caswell Hall, Danny Packard, Carter Brenkshaw, New York, Third Reich, Spencer Keene, Colt Commander, Heinrich Kokoschka New!
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A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
white eel, programming board, red curb, main lab Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fat Jack, Palm Springs, Stefan Krieger, Big Bear, Willy Sheener, Lightning Road, Bob Shane, Laura Shane, San Bernardino, Miss Keist, Sir Tommy, Aunt Thelma, Thelma Ackerson, Orange County, Chief's Special, Beverly Hills, Santa Claus, Caswell Hall, Danny Packard, Carter Brenkshaw, New York, Third Reich, Spencer Keene, Colt Commander, Heinrich Kokoschka New!
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- The House of Thunder by Dean Koontz in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Face of Fear by Dean R. Koontz in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Face of Fear by Dean Koontz in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain on page 110
- The Bad Place by Dean Koontz in Front Matter
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