Dragon Tears
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Book Overview
Police detective Harry Lyon is a perfectionist who likes his condo immaculate, his suits well tailored, and his homicide files error-free. To Harry's dismay, his partner, Connie Gulliver, embraces... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0399137734
ISBN13:9780399137730
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:Putnam Adult
Length:377 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:20.0" x 20.0" x 20.0"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
Classic Koontz
Published by Matthew Clark , 7 months ago
This vintage Dean Koontz novel offers some pretty intense action sequences while keeping the reader invested in the story through interesting and colorful characters. It holds up pretty well and gives more than one good scare. Horror/thriller fans will certainly dig it.
Vintage Koontz
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Detective Harry Lyon is having a bad day. He and his partner stop for a quiet lunch and find themselves in a life or death gun battle with a crazed gunman. But it's only the beginning and things are about to get much worse. By sheer coincidence, Harry runs afoul of someone far more dangerous and far more powerful than a lunatic with a gun. It is a phantom he will come to call Ticktock and his abilities are superhuman. He is like a vengeful god and he makes a sport of punishing people and terrorizing them before he kills them. He gives Harry 24 hours to live and during that time, everything he loves is in danger unless he can put a stop to it... This is classic Koontz and a highly entertaining read. I've read nearly all of his work, but somehow never got around to this jewel until recently. He was in the top of his form during this time and I highly recommend picking this up for fast moving, suspenseful fun.
SATISFYING! ORIGINAL! I TRULY ENJOYED READING IT...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
When I was 28 I told myself I had outgrown Dean Koontz after having just read a disappointing Koontz novel. I'm now 36 and recently picked up DRAGON TEARS. WOW was it good, and it really reminded me of why I liked Dean Koontz so much. This story was so original, so subtle, yet so terrifying. The suspense builds so gradually that you hardly feel it and then you're tied up in knots to see what happens next. Koontz's character development was awesome, and the ending had me laughing so hard my spouse came into the room to see what was so funny. Thank you Dean Koontz, and I'm sorry I pushed your books aside 8 yrs. ago-- my loss and my mistake!
Nobody understands dogs like Koontz.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Do you love dogs? Then you'll love this book. Put aside the terror and suspense (and imagination) for a moment. Koontz is the first author I know of that has portrayed the mind of a dog with such accuracy that, after reading it, you'll want to go out and sniff behinds. Maybe that's a hyperbole. And it probably is in poor taste. But you know what I mean, if you love dogs. But the fact is, I loved the chapters seen through the eyes of a dog. Although short, they'll leave with with an appreciation of the canine psychology that will make you laugh. Bark, whine, bark.
A cliched Masterpiece!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
I can see how a person can easily hate this book. However, I found it to be very entertaining despite many of the "Koontz Cliches" that can be found throughout. READER BEWARE: The book starts out painfully slow, but about halfway through it really starts to grab your attention as the action picks up. Koontz successfully weaves a devious villian, cliched cops, and some of the most nerve-racking white knuckle suspense filled chase scenes ever to come out with one of the best books I've ever read.
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