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Oct 02, 2018kpelish rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Like Stephen King, Dean Koontz is one of America's best horror writers. Although this 462-page book has a strong female protagonist in Jane Hawk, Koontz stumbles here; I found the long-winded torture scenes unnecessary to the plot. The government elites, as expected, are working to enslave the populace (this has become a trite theme). It does end on an upbeat note: “...that : 'truth' [cruelty and horror] was the delusion of those for whom life was nothing more than a contest for power, who either could not see or refused to see the beauty and the wonder of the world, who wanted to find no meaning beyond themselves, who lived to control, to tell others what to do and think and believe, and who relished crushing those who would not submit. If it was inevitable that evolving technologies would provide them with the absolute power they craved, they must still be resisted.”