The Big Dark Sky

by Dean Koontz

Overview

Drawn to a Montana homestead and to a strange childhood companion she'd long forgotten, Joanna Chase and others converge on this remote ranch where a madman lurks with a vision to save the future through murder, forcing them all to come together to save themselves--and humanity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798885787291
Publisher:	Gale, A Cengage Company
Publication date:	03/29/2023
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	540
Sales rank:	158,336
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

International bestselling author Dean Koontz was only a senior in college when he won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition. He has never stopped writing since. Koontz is the author of Quicksilver, Elsewhere, The Other Emily, Devoted, and seventy-nine New York Times bestsellers, fourteen of which were #1, including One Door Away from Heaven, From the Corner of His Eye, Midnight, Cold Fire, The Bad Place, Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Intensity, Sole Survivor, The Husband, Odd Hours, Relentless, What the Night Knows, and 77 Shadow Street. He’s been hailed by Rolling Stone as “America’s most popular suspense novelist,” and his books have been published in thirty-eight languages and have sold over five hundred million copies worldwide. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he now lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirits of their goldens Trixie and Anna. For more information, visit his website at www.deankoontz.com.

Hometown:

Newport Beach, California

Date of Birth:

July 9, 1945

Place of Birth:

Everett, Pennsylvania

Education:

B.S. (major in English), Shippensburg University, 1966

Website:

http://www.deankoontz.com

Editorial Reviews

Iraqi-Canadian actor Fajer Al-Kaisi narrates this twisted horror story set under Montana's big, dark sky.… With his emphatic voice, Al-Kaisi's narration keeps listeners engaged as he takes them through one bizarre event after another. His intelligent and perfectly timed performance makes for believable heroes and frightening villains.” —AudioFile Magazine

"Narrator Fajer AJ-Kaisi does an excellent job providing voices and accents for Koontz's wide and numerous cast of characters. He ably conveys the tidbits of philosophy, quantum mechanics, and cult thinking that Koontz sprinkles throughout."—Library Journal

“A nonstop actioner with cosmic overtones painted in consistently broad strokes.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Another A-plus thriller from a writer on a serious winning streak.” —Booklist (starred review)

“A twisty, mystifying, suspenseful, expansive and, ultimately, entertaining read.” —CultureFly

From the Publisher

Iraqi-Canadian actor Fajer Al-Kaisi narrates this twisted horror story set under Montana’s big, dark sky. Joanna Chase is no stranger to tragedy, but when she starts receiving odd phone calls asking her to return to her childhood home in Montana, she feels she has no choice but to go back to the place she thought she’d left behind forever. A frightening man with dark dreams and wicked intentions is drawn to the same place. With his emphatic voice, Al-Kaisi’s narration keeps listeners engaged as he takes them through one bizarre event after another. His intelligent and perfectly timed performance makes for believable heroes and frightening villains. V.B. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2022 - AudioFile

2022-04-27
Those incredible coincidences Carl Jung dubbed synchronicities lie at the heart of Koontz’s latest—if it can be said to have a heart.

Twenty-four years after the deaths of her mother and father only weeks apart drove her from Montana to live with her Aunt Katherine in Santa Fe, Joanna Chase hears a spectral voice bidding her return. At the same time, tech billionaire Liam O’Hara, who now owns Rustling Willows, the ranch where Joanna spent her childhood, hires Seattle PI Wyatt Rider to investigate a mysterious disturbance that spooked O’Hara’s family on a recent visit. And no wonder, for there’s no lack of spooky manifestations in the area. Embezzling chemist Harley Spondollar’s house collapsed moments after he stepped outdoors; Jimmy Alvarez, the childhood friend Joanna’s somehow forgotten despite his memorable birth defects, has been touched by dark forces; and Asher Optime, formerly associated with Xanthus Toller’s Restoration Movement, has branched out on his own quest to restore the planet to its natural balance by eliminating all humankind (the list of victims he’s abducted and killed so far stands at five). Eventually the oddball heroes, joined by good-guy hacker Kenny Deetle, his more-than-one-night-stand Leigh Ann Bruce, his wingman, Dr. Ganesh Patel, and Artimis Selene, Patel’s partner in the secret Project Olivaw who yearns to be more, make common cause against the odder-ball villains. But although Koontz repeatedly and oracularly invokes the awesome powers of synchronicity to explain the mesh of connections among the cast members, this remains very much a pickup ballgame, highly effective from scene to scene but in hindsight as evanescent as a mirage.

A nonstop actioner with cosmic overtones painted in consistently broad strokes.

Kirkus Reviews