Dean Koontz - Cold Fire

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Solid, satisfying, hair-raising ... Koontz barely lets the reader come up for air between terrors.

The Washington Post

An extraordinary piece of fiction with unforgettable characters. It will be a classic.

-UPI

In Portland, he saved a young boy from a drunk driver. In Boston, he rescued a child from an underground explosion. In Houston, he disarmed a man who was trying to shoot his own wife. Reporter Holly Thorne was intrigued by this strange quiet savior named Jim Ironheart. She was even falling in love with him. But what power compelled an ordinary man to save twelve lives in three months? What visions haunted his dreams? And why did he whisper in his sleep: There is an Enemy. It is coming. Itll kill us all ... ?

COLD FIRE

A unique spellbinding novel with depth, sensitivity, and personality.

Boston Herald

Praise forCold Fire

Irresistible. Cold Fire doesnt disappointNewsweek

A swift, psychospiritual adventure ... offers plenty of surging suspense and sentimentKirkus Reviews

[Koontzs] name has come to be recognized as a guarantee of a good, solid read. Cold Fire is his most enjoyable book to date.The Times of London

Unforgettable. A stunning showdown.

Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune

Koontz is an expert at creating believable characters.

Detroit News and Free Press

Koontzs imagination is not only as big as the Ritz, it is also as wild as an unbroken stallion. Gripping.

Los Angeles Times

An exciting, well-conceived story ... filled with spectacular descriptive scenes ... creative and captivating.

Lansing State Journal

In Cold Fire Koontz shows off his style. Unforgettable.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Koontz strikes a chord in Cold Fire, latest of [his] string of darkly brilliant novels. Youll revel in this adventure tale.

-The Jackson Sun

Compelling ... steadily building suspense that defies any attempt to put it down.The Macon Telegraph

Fresh, hopeful ... a charm all its own ... that propels you willingly from page to page. -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A cool sizzler thatll grab you from the start and wont let go until you either finish it or are overcome by exhaustion. I thoroughly enjoyed itDuncan (OK) Times

Hard to put down. [Koontzs] ability to breathe life into his characters and to weave a web of suspense has resulted in a book that will cause many sleepless nights.

Lexington Herald-Ledger

From its opening line to its thrilling climax, [Cold Fire] is a mesmerizing tale that grabs the reader and refuses to let go, a breathtaking experience.Orange County Register

Koontz can write characterization rings around [other popular novelists].The Birmingham News

Cold Fire is a page-turner, and Koontzs prose is as easy to take as lemonade on a hot summer day.

The Flint (MI) Sunday Journal

Suspenseful, entertaining ... vivid storytelling [that] offers the reader an unsettling insight into deep trauma and the aftereffects of unresolved sorrow.

Sunday Cape Cod Times

Koontz does it so well!

The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate

The tight, quixotic storyline of Cold Fire is supported by deep characterization and a most developed sense of place and pace. He is the readers friend, in that he can always be counted upon to deliver.Fear

His prose mesmerizes ... gut-wrenching clarity. Its in the descriptions of emotional statesfrom love to despair that Koontz consistently hits the bulls-eye, evoking reactions of Yes! I know exactly how that feels!

Arkansas Democrat

Likable characters, thrilling plot, and nonstop suspense.

The Greenville (NC) Daily Reflector

A stunner... things are never what they seem ... characters of extraordinary depth and sensitivity.Californian

Koontz adeptly builds tension, fully fleshing out his characters and establishing a mesmerizing plot. A galloping page-turner.Chattanooga News-Free Press

Well-written, hard to put down.New Britain Herald

Wonder-filled, powerful suspense.

Plainview Daily Herald

Berkley titles by Dean Koontz

THE EYES OF DARKNESS
THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT
MR. MURDER
THE FUNHOUSE
DRAGON TEARS
SHADOWFIRES
HIDEAWAY
COLD FIRE
THE HOUSE OF THUNDER
THE VOICE OF THE NIGHT
THE BAD PLACE
THE SERVANTS OF TWILIGHT
MIDNIGHT
LIGHTNING
THE MASK
WATCHERS
TWILIGHT EYES
STRANGERS
DEMON SEED
PHANTOMS
WHISPERS
NIGHT CHILLS
DARKFALL
SHATTERED
THE VISION
THE FACE OF FEAR

To Nick and Vicky Page,
who know how to be
good neighbors and friends
if they would only try.
&
Dick and Pat Karlan,
who are among the few
in Hollywood
who own their souls
and always will.
My life is better for
having known you all.
Weirder, but better!

Part One

THE HERO, THE FRIEND

In the real world as in dreams, nothing is quite what it seems.

THE BOOK OF COUNTED SORROWS

Life without meaning
cannot be borne.
We find a mission
to which were sworn
or answer the call
of Deaths dark horn.
Without a gleaning
of purpose in life,
we have no vision,
we live in strife,
or let blood fall
on a suicide knife.

THE BOOK OF COUNTED SORROWS

AUGUST 12

1

Even before the events in the supermarket, Jim Ironheart should have known trouble was coming. During the night he dreamed of being pursued across a field by a flock of large blackbirds that shrieked around him in a turbulent flapping of wings and tore at him with hooked beaks as precision-honed as surgical scalpels. When he woke and was unable to breathe, he shuffled onto the balcony in his pajama bottoms to get some fresh air. But at nine-thirty in the morning, the temperature, already ninety degrees, only contributed to the sense of suffocation with which he had awakened.

A long shower and a shave refreshed him.

The refrigerator contained only part of a moldering Sara Lee cake. It resembled a laboratory culture of some new, exquisitely virulent strain of botulinus. He could either starve or go out into the furnace heat.

The August day was so torrid that birds, beyond the boundaries of bad dreams, preferred the bowers of the trees to the sun-scorched open spaces of the southern California sky; they sat silently in their leafy shelters, chirruping rarely and without enthusiasm. Dogs padded cat-quick along sidewalks as hot as griddles. No man, woman or child paused to see if an egg would fry on the concrete, taking it as a matter of faith.

After eating a light breakfast at an umbrella-shaded table on the patio of a seaside cafe in Laguna Beach, he was enervated again and sheathed in a dew of perspiration. It was one of those rare occasions when the Pacific could not produce even a dependable mild breeze.

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