About the Author

Dean Koontz the author of many #1" New York Times" bestsellers, lives with his wife, Gerda, and the enduring spirit of their golden retriever, Trixie, in southern California.

Reviews

Koontz's latest thriller, slated for fast track silver screen adaptation in a joint venture between Random House and Focus Features, presents a spellbinding Hitchcock-flavored tale of an innocent, unassuming everyman caught in an intricate web of duplicity. While toiling away in the yard of a client, Orange County landscaper Mitch Rafferty casually answers his cellular phone and learns that his wife, Holly, has been taken hostage; the humble man of the soil must raise a $2 million ransom to prevent the unthinkable from happening. Graham, fresh from such recent audiobook triumphs as John Berendt's The City of Falling Angels and Lisa Gardner's Alone, delivers a smooth single-malt scotch of a performance. Graham brings a straight-arrow, earnest 20-something cadence to Mitch's voice. He also skillfully navigates the diverse cast of Southern California characters-young Holly facing danger with both grace and bravery, a seasoned homicide detective, a sadistic kidnapper obsessed with New Age spirituality, and a high-tech entrepreneur hiding a sinister secret-with masterful use of vocal inflection and carefully timed pauses. Simultaneous release with the Bantam hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 25). (Aug.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Kidnappers have nabbed the wife of Mitchell Rafferty, and they expect the modest working man to come up with $2 million to get her back alive. Who knows how far he will go to get the money. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

" The Husband moves like a roller coaster without brakes... .Without a doubt, Koontz is America's No. 1 author of thrillers today ... The Husband is one of his finest novels." -- "The Denver Post"
" Dean Koontz thrillers are the perfect way to chill out on a hot summer day." -- "The Chicago Tribune
"
" Fast-paced.... Koontz often pulls the rug out from under his readers' assumptions about his characters and their motives." -- Associated Press, Book Reveiw
" Koontz ratchets up the tension.... [A] pulse-pounding thriller with echoes of Hitchcock and Cornell Woolrich." -- "Publishers Weekly"
"The Husband moves like a roller coaster without brakes....Without a doubt, Koontz is America's No. 1 author of thrillers today ... The Husband is one of his finest novels."--"The Denver Post"
"Dean Koontz thrillers are the perfect way to chill out on a hot summer day."--"The Chicago Tribune
"
"Fast-paced.... Koontz often pulls the rug out from under his readers' assumptions about his characters and their motives."--Associated Press, Book Reveiw
"Koontz ratchets up the tension.... [A] pulse-pounding thriller with echoes of Hitchcock and Cornell Woolrich."--"Publishers Weekly"