By the Light of the Moon: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as “America’s most popular suspensenovelist”(Rolling Stone) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writersof our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleledability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar andutterly unique.

Author of one #1 New York Times bestseller after another, Koontzis at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling talesthat speak directly to today’s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliantrevelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor,heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave youclamoring for more.

Dylan O’Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do theright thing in life. He’s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stopsto get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But ina nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious “doctor,” injected witha strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will eitherkill transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told thathe must flee–before the doctor’s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulatingthrough his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.

Stunned,disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his straight into an adventurethat will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery–andwondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shep’s path intersectswith that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedianwhose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too isa carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that they’ll be safer stickingtogether, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only secondsbefore Jilly’s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air.

Now the three areon the run together, but with no idea whom they’re running from–or why. MeanwhileShep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is that’scoursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmareafter another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicablydrawn to crime scenes–just minutes before the crimes take place.

What this unfathomablepower is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and whythey have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragicpast and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimelydeath. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precioustime running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work “by the lightof the moon.”

By the Light of the Moon is a novel of heart-stopping suspense andtranscendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us–a masterworkof the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublimestorytelling triumphs throughout.

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz’s The City.