Strangers

“The plot twists ingeniously...an engaging, often chilling book.”—The New York Times Book Review A writer in California. A doctor in Boston. A motel owner and his employee in Nevada. A priest in Chicago. A robber in New York. A little girl in Las Vegas. They’re a handful of people from across the country, living through eerie variations of the same nightmare. A dark memory is calling out to them. And soon they will be drawn together, deep in the heart of a sprawling desert, where the terrifying truth awaits...

"The plot twists ingeniously...chilling." (The New York Times Book Review)

Publishers Weekly

The author of Phantoms, Whispers and other thrillers takes an unconscionable time to tell his latest story. The ``strangers'' are thousands of miles apart when they begin to suffer inexplicable terrors. In California, Dom Corvaisis sleepwalks, fleeing from an unseen menace. In Massachusetts, gifted young Dr. Ginger Weiss's panic attacks threaten her career. A priest in the Midwest loses his faith suddenly, then finds he can heal fatally injured people. And, in Elko, Nevada, the owner of a motela tough ex-Marinebecomes paralyzed by fears of the dark. Mysterious clues bring these characters and others, similarly afflicted, to the motel, where apparently they had met long before. As they compare experiences, the victims realize they've been brainwashed and determine to find out why. That means facing death at the hands of a maniac in a scene that finally induces frissons of terror in the reader. But it's too late; Koontz has vitiated suspense throughout the narrative with numbing repetitions and long explanations of such matters as Jewish cooking, the baldachin over the altar at St. Patrick's Cathedral, a weaver's tools, etc.

THEY WERE STRANGERS. A handful of people. From different backgrounds, living in different towns and cities across America, they had nothing in common - except fear. THEY WERE VICTIMS. Cold and stark, an unknown terror gripped their dreams and turned their days into living nightmares. THEY WERE CHOSEN. And they could not escape. Deep in the heart of a sprawling desert, a dark memory called out to them drawing them to the Tranquility Motel - where the terrifying truth was waiting.. EDITORIAL REVIEW: A handful of people from different backgrounds, living in different towns and cities across America, they had nothing in common--except fear.What dark secret bound them together? Deep in the heart of a sprawling desert, a dark memory called out to them, drawing them to the Tranquility Motel--where the terrifying truth was waiting...''This is a book with a capital B.''--John D. MacDonald* A *New York Times* bestseller Los protagonistas de esta estremecedora novela comparten inconscientemente un secreto cuya realidad resulta aterradora. Todo lo que saben es que un oscuro horror domina y destruye sus vidas. Estos extraños viven sumidos en el desconcierto hasta que aparecen una serie de pistas enigmáticas y establecen algunos contactos. ¿Qué pueden haber compartido estos desconocidos para que unos agentes poderosos y sin escrúpulos intenten acabar con ellos? Dominick Corvaisis went to sleep under a light wool blanket and a crisp white sheet, sprawled alone in his bed, but he woke elsewhere-in the darkness at the back of the large foyer closet, behind concealing coats and jackets. A group of unrelated people experience sensations of numbing terror and fear, and, groping their ways toward one another, discover their sinister, shared secrets in a climax that changes their lives forever An account of a night filled with terror for the residents of the Tranquillity Motel.