Darkfall

A blizzard brings a city to a standstill-and ushers in an evil that defies imagination. Review Swift, entertaining...a classic race to the rescue. ( Publishers Weekly ) A master storyteller. ( San Diego Union-Tribune ) One of our finest and most versatile suspense writers. ( Macon Telegraph & News ) About the Author Dean Koontz was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Bedford. He won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition when he was twenty and has been writing ever since. Mr. Koontz's books are published in 38 languages. Worldwide sales total more than 175 million copies, a figure that currently increases at a rate of more than 350 million copies a year. Dean and his wife, Gerda, live in southern California. A blizzard brings a city to a standstill and ushers in an evil that defies imagination in this gripping tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.Winter gripped the city. Terror gripped it, too. They found four corpses in four days, each more hideous than the last. At first the cops thought they were dealing with a psychopath. But soon they heard eerie sounds in the ventilation system—and saw unearthly silver eyes in the snow-slashed night. In a city paralyzed by a blizzard, something watches, something stalks... Who is more foolish - the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? Baba Lavelle is a stranger in New York. A stranger with a mission to break the Mafia stranglehold on the city's drug traffic, and take over himself. He has no guns, no army of hoods, no friends in high places. But he has the Power - magical, ancient, and terrifyingly brutal. The power that thrives in darkness... Four corpses are found in four days, each more hideously disfigured than the last. Then the nightmare in all its mottled, slimy horror appears, coming from every direction Terror strikes when four hideously disfigured corpses are discovered over the course of four days The next morning, the first thing Rebecca said to Jack Dawson was, "We have two stiffs."