Breathless
Dean Koontz

In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow into light... and into an encounter with enchantment. That night, through the trees, under the moon, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to make their approach.
A few miles away, Camilla Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring to her door all of the forces of a government in peril.
At a nearby farm, long estranged identical twins come together to begin a descent into darkness. In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable. On a Seattle golf course, two men make matter of fact arrangements for murder. Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek toward his destiny.
In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the moment between one turn of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and mystery. It is a journey that will leave all to take it breathless.

As with many of his novels, this one does not cease to impress. It reads just like one would expect a Dean Koontz novel to read, and it's also surprisingly quick to read. This is partly because it's just a plain and simple quick and easy read and also because the story is so interesting that you don't realize what time has passed while you're engrossed in the novel.

Both the main and even the secondary characters are well fleshed out. Impressively so - even the dog Merlin and the new creatures have personalities of their own.

The plot is fresh and doesn't feel like another idea of the author's (or someone else's) just being rehashed.

Not only is the book engaging, but it also has a moral to it - one that I can't mention here without ruining some of the surprise and suspense within.

I highly recommend this for a Dean Koontz fan, and even recommend it for someone who has never read this author before. I do think that anyone would find this book to be exceptional.

My rating: Four out of five snails.