Koontz, Dean

Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished; including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he; or anyone else; has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatly admired. Although what Michael does for Nina is life changing, his actions also evoke the wrath of John?s father, a member of one of the most violent street gangs in Los Angeles. But an even greater threat is descending: the Internal Security Agency?s most vicious assassin, Durand Calaphas. Calaphas will stop at nothing to get his man. If Michael dies twice, he will not live a third time.

In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortress-like stone house on Jacob's Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob's Ladder in search of someone, or something, they refuse to identify. Although an air of menace hangs over these men, an infinitely greater threat has arrived, one so strange even the island animals are in a state of high alarm. Katie soon finds herself in an epic and terrifying battle with a mysterious enemy. But Katie's not alone after all: a brave young girl appears out of the violent squall. As Katie and her companion struggle across a dark and eerie landscape, against them is an omnipresent terror that could bring about the end of the world.

Drawn to a Montana homestead and to a strange childhood companion she'd long forgotten, Joanna Chase and others converge on this remote ranch where a madman lurks with a vision to save the future through murder, forcing them all to come together to save themselves; and humanity.

Haunted by the unsolved disappearance of the love of his life a decade earlier, writer David Thorne visits her suspected killer in prison before meeting a woman who uncannily resembles the person he lost.

Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown, and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get him? When society is sick, the mad are sane; and persecution is a killer's game.

At first, only Jane stood against the 'Arcadian' conspirators, but slowly others have emerged to stand with her, even as there are troubling signs that the 'adjusted' people are beginning to spin viciously out of control. Now, in the showdown that will decide America's future, Jane will require all her resources, and more, as she confronts those at the malevolent, impregnable center of power.

She was one of the FBI's top agents until she became the nation's most-wanted fugitive. Now Jane Hawk may be all that stands between a free nation and its enslavement by a powerful secret society's terrifying mind-control technology. She couldn't save her husband, or the others whose lives have been destroyed, but equipped with superior tactical and survival skills; and the fury born of a broken heart and a hunger for justice; Jane has struck major blows against the insidious cabal. But Jane's enemies are about to hit back hard. If their best operatives can't outrun her, they mean to bring her running to them, using her five-year-old son as bait. Jane knows there's no underestimating their capabilities, but she must battle her way back across the country to the remote shelter where her boy is safely hidden; for now. As she moves resolutely forward, new threats begin to emerge: a growing number of brain-altered victims driven hopelessly, violently insane. With the madness spreading like a virus, the war between Jane and her enemies will become a fight for all their lives; against the lethal terror unleashed from behind the forbidden door.

Jane Hawk, faces the fight of her life, against the threat of a lifetime, in this electrifying new thriller.

No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this.' These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun; just before she takes her own life, and many others', in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better. In the wake of her husband's inexplicable suicide, and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals, Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But the ruthless people bent on hijacking America's future for their own monstrous ends never banked on a highly trained FBI agent willing to go rogue, and become the nation's most wanted fugitive, in order to derail their insidious plans to gain absolute power with a terrifying technological breakthrough.

In the midst of his rage about their pending divorce, Eric was killed in a traffic accident. Eric's body disappeared from the morgue, and now Rachael is being stalked by someone who looks like her dead husband.