From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of... DEAN KOONTZS CITY OF NIGHT They are stronger, heal bet
City of Night
β Scribed by Dean Koontz; Ed Gorman
- Publisher
- Random House Digital, Inc.;Bantam Books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 147 KB
- Edition
- Bantam books mass market ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0553593331
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β¦ Synopsis
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. The mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic continue. . . . They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever createdβand they must be destroyed. Not even Victor Heliosβonce Frankensteinβcan stop the engineered killers heβs set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Only the one-time βmonsterβ Deucalion and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Caron OβConnor and Michael Maddison, stand in their way. But as the three race to uncover the true dimensions of an age-old conspiracy, they will discover that Victorβs new, improved models have infiltrated every level of the cityβs society . . . and far beyond.
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John Rechy, recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s William Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote City of Night in 1963. This radical and daring work, which launched Rechy’s reputation as one of America’s most courageous novelists, remains the classic document of the garish ne
**"[Rechy's] tone rings absolutely true, is absolutely his own. . . . He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. . . . This is a most humbling and liberating achievement."--James Baldwin** When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared