The Moonlit Mind: A Tale of Suspense

✍ Scribed by Koontz, Dean

• Publisher: Bantam
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780345530134

✦ Synopsis

Amazon.com Review

Stories about children living on the streets are always heartbreaking, yet Dean Koontz's The Moonlit Mind is also hopeful. Crispin lives on the streets by choice, surviving with the help of a singular dog. Though they're constantly on the run from Crispin's mother and step-father, Crispin finds himself unable to leave the city until he understands everything he saw at his step-father's house. Three years after he flees, he's finally ready to return. Koontz builds the supernatural aspects of the story with a masterful touch, so that even at their crescendo, they fit naturally into the narrative. Taut pacing, a fascinating storyline, and unflinching descriptions of a life on the run combine into a powerful story about relationships: between a boy and his dog, between two children whose experiences add years of maturity to their ages, between man and time. Crispin's will to survive--and to make things right--no matter what brings hope to even the darkest parts of the narrative. --Malissa Kent

Review

“Koontz writes first-rate suspense, scary and stylish.” —Los Angeles Times
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“A master at spinning dark tales . . . Koontz knows how to dial up the terror.”—Associated Press

“Dean Koontz . . . has the power to scare the daylights out of us.”— People
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“Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular fiction to explore the human condition [and] demonstrating that the real horror of life is found not in monsters, but within the human psyche.” —USA Today

“Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler.”— The Times (London)