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If you think you've got it tough, meet Christopher Snow, the hero of Dean Koontz's novel Fear Nothing. Not only did his parents die under mysterious circumstances, but he's also being stalked by shadowy characters who want Snow to stop trying to find out how they died--or else they'll bump off his remaining loved ones (his supersmart, beer-lapping dog Orson; his best surfing buddy Bobby; and his late-night deejay girlfriend Sasha). And as if being on the lam in his own hometown, Moonlight Bay, California, isn't bad enough, Snow has to outrun his pursuers without leaving town. He has XP--xeroderma pigmentosum--a rare genetic affliction that forces him to avoid light. Cumulative exposure to sun, fluorescent lights, and the like will give him cancer eventually, and he doesn't dare leave the place where he's skillfully "done the mambo with melanoma" for all of his 28 years. Koontz makes the night-town of Moonlight Bay come alive in this sometimes pulse-pounding, sometimes funny, but mostly rather lyrical thriller. Fans of Koontz's legendary 1986 novel Watchers will love this book's similar theme: our hero and a loveable super-dog deal with a genetic engineering laboratory run amok. Horror fans will savor the evil mutant rhesus "millennium monkeys" who hunt Snow, the few scenes of eloquent gore, and the plight of certain mutating townsfolk who are, as they put it, "becoming" something very creepy.

Koontz gives Snow and Bobby a lingo that does for surfer talk what Austin Powers did for the Swinging '60s, and his metaphors are almost as madcap as Tom Robbins's: "As the chains of the swinging light fixture torqued, the links twisted against one another with enough friction to cause an eerie ringing, as if lizard-eyed altar boys in blood-soaked cassocks and surplices were ringing the unmelodious bells of a satanic mass." Sometimes Koontz's style goes over the top and wipes out, surfer-style, but for the most part, Fear Nothing will have readers bellowing "Cowabunga!" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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YA-Christopher Snow understands the night. He, like the owl, is nocturnal, living on the mysterious darker edge of society. Snow is afflicted with xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare and often-fatal genetic disease that makes ultraviolet rays-even those from lamps and televisions-deadly. His condition makes him a pariah in the isolated small town of Moonlight Bay where the ignorant and insensitive fear what they do not know. As the action begins, Snow's father dies, leaving him with only a handful of offbeat but fiercely loyal friends to turn to for understanding. At the morgue, Snow accidentally witnesses his father's body being replaced with the mutilated corpse of a vagrant. Before he can find out what is behind this scandal, he receives a frantic summons from a friend who is brutally murdered before she can finish explaining a strange story about monkeys and a secret project at the government compound at the edge of town. What begins as a disturbing puzzle quickly becomes a sinister conspiracy as Snow uncovers evidence of uncanny intelligence in many of the local animals and inhumanely vicious tendencies in some of the human residents of the Bay. They are "becoming" he learns, but becoming what? Chilling chase scenes steadily increase the breakneck pace as Snow, assisted by his remarkable dog, is pursued through the night by unseen forces. Despite some clunky and unnecessary surfer slang, fans will go wild for this well-plotted thriller.
Robin Deffendall, Prince William Public Library System, VA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam; First Thus edition (December 1, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0553579754
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553579758
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (474 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #144,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, good characters, January 8, 2003
This review is from: Fear Nothing (Mass Market Paperback)
As a long time Dean Koontz fan, I can attest to the fact that he can be very hit or miss. While I wouldn't necessarily call Fear Nothing a total hit/blockbuster, it was one of the best Koontz that I have read in a while. Those familiar with Koontz, but leery of his irregularity will not be disappointed with this novel.

I won't bother going through the plot again, as so many other reviewers have done quite well. I will just say that the plot was sufficiently suspenseful to keep me turning pages and happily entertained. The characters in this book, though, are really the best parts. Christopher Snow, a man with a serious disease that makes him deathly allergic to light is not only sweet, but funny as well. His friend Bobby, the coolest of all possible surfer dudes, is hysterical and philisophical at the same time. You really won't be able to help liking these characters.

Unlike in some other novels, Koontz maintains his talent for strong description and backstory, without getting into long-winded tangents that put readers to sleep.

Overall, I say Fear Nothing was quite fun, entertaining, and a pleasure to read. I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy of Seize the Night, the next book in the Christoper Snow saga. I highly recommend this book to all who enjoy suspenseful reading and likable, funny characters.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Scary Book with a Dog to Die for, January 21, 2005
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Chris Snow suffers from xeroderma pigmentosum, aka XP, a condition which makes him vulnerable to skin cancer and eye problems. He cannot be in the light, especially the sun, cannot go out during the day. You might say he is allergic to the light. He is a night person. His father is dying from cancer and his mother was killed in a auto accident two years ago.

He keeps his house dark, lights with candles. When he goes over to the few friends he has, they dim their lights. It is by candlelight in the hospial that he visits his father just before his death. Later he wants to bury a picture of his mother with his dad and in the morgue he happens on a couple guys switching his dad's body before it was supposed to go to the funeral home.

Thus begins an adventure that is typical Dean Koontz, with Koontzian characters that are sometimes bizarre, sometimes crazy, sometimes shady and always very real. So real that you feel like you are running from the bad guys right along with Chris and his friends. And then there is Chris' highly intelligent dog Orsen and a whole passel (troup actually) of very bad monkees. How does Dean Koontz do it, write books as good as this?
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars I COULD'VE USED THE TIME BETTER READING A DIFFERENT BOOK, September 28, 2000
This review is from: Fear Nothing (Mass Market Paperback)
It had been a while since I'd picked up a Dean Koontz book. The first one I read a long, long time ago was HIDEAWAY. (Don't be fooled by the movie, it was an awesome book.)

Here's my bit of advice... If you're a serious book reader and have a long list of novels you're trying to keep pace with, avoid this book like the plague and read one of the others on your list instead. If you're dead-set on keeping a Koontz book on your palette, I would suggest HIDEAWAY.

The main character in FEAR NOTHING (Snow) is very two diminsional, the secondary characters, especially his best friend, are really silly and detract from the believability of the book in a very big way.

The book begins with the death of Snow's father. I found it odd that there's absolutely no period of grief. In fact, immediately after the death, Snow finds out his dad's body is being stolen and his temper doesn't even raise. He handles the revelation like it's something that happens to him all the time. Later on that same evening, Snow is visiting his best friend and they pass the time drinking bruskies and practicing the most annoying surfer lingo. "Well, my dad's dead, but got any bear, dude?"

The emotions presented are COMPLETELY shallow. The bad guys, which are a group of monkeys of all things, come across ridiculous and unthreatening. Additionally, a conversation Snow has with a policechief is one of the most incredibly disgusting (...not scary, as it was intended) scenes I have ever read. (It deals with the fantasized incest and murder of a little girl.) If I were Koontz, I'd have been ashamed including it, as it was neither necessary or good for the book.

I'm not knocking Koontz, he's a very good writer. But I've discovered it's hit and miss with him. He just didn't seem to have an enthusiasm while writing this book and in my opinion wrote it in an extremely poor manner.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Opening Novel for the Koontz Series
As a longtime reader of Dean Koontz, I have to say that "Fear Nothing" is one of his best novels. "Fear Nothing" features all of the elements Koontz is known for and then some... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars My absolute favorite Dean Koontz series
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