After Death, Dean Koontz
After Death, Dean Koontz
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After Death

Author: Dean Koontz

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/18/2023

Synopsis

A modern-day Lazarus is humanity’s last hope in a breathtaking novel about the absolute powers of good and evil by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished—including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry.Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he—or anyone else—has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatly admired. Although what Michael does for Nina is life changing, his actions also evoke the wrath of John’s father, a member of one of the most violent street gangs in Los Angeles.But an even greater threat is descending: the Internal Security Agency’s most vicious assassin, Durand Calaphas. Calaphas will stop at nothing to get his man. If Michael dies twice, he will not live a third time.From the tarnished glamour of Beverly Hills to the streets of South Central to a walled estate in Rancho Santa Fe, only Michael can protect Nina and John—and ensure that light survives in a rapidly darkening world.

About Dean Koontz

Author Dean Koontz was born in Everett Pennsylvania in 1945. He has used various Pen names such as, Aaron Wolfe, Brian Coffey, David Axton, Deanna Dwyer, John Hill, K.R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols, Anthony North, Owen West and Richard Paige. His accomplished occupations include novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and poet. Most people were not aware of his many Pen names and various talents in literature besides novelist. Koontz genres of choice are suspense, horror and science fiction thrillers. He has had 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks making it to #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list. According to the Dean Kootnz official website, he has sold more than 450 million copies of his books.

A little known fact about Dean Koontz is that he had hair transplantation in the late intos. Many of his novels are set in or around Orange County, California where he lives with his wife Gerda, in Newport Coast in an estate named Pelican Hills. His reported annual salary is $25 million.1990

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on August 13, 2023

This book is about a man who dies in a work related accident but rises from the dead. The powers to be believe he is a danger because he has an ability that threatens their existence. Meanwhile he decides to help a mother and son who are in trouble with a local gang. This was a decent offering from t......more

Goodreads review by Simon on August 21, 2023

This is one of Koontz's paranormal genre works which for me are not my thing as much as his suspenseful murders. It started great and was drawn into the narrative but some of the characters fell short of his usual development. Overall still worth the effort and definitely an interesting read.......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on August 20, 2023

I wish I knew why the hell I keep purchasing Koontz’s novels…. Because they haven’t been good in some years now. The last ones I think I really enjoyed were the Jane Hawk series, but only some of those got 4 stars…. Hardly any others since then. This particular novel includes some one- or two-dimensi......more

Goodreads review by Deb on July 23, 2023

Good read Dean Koontz tends to use extremely detailed descriptive words that illuminate each character and surroundings in such great detail, it appears as if the reader is embedded into the story. Imaginative, yet grounded. I enjoyed reading this immensely and recommend for those who like sci-fi thr......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on December 23, 2024

Life or Something Like it Michael was killed in a lab accident along with all of his coworkers, and he alone rises from the tables among his friends, and leaves the lab. In a video, a man sees the sheet slide from a table, and the door open and close. What did he just see? Both of those men are danger......more

Quotes

“Koontz's latest thriller is superbly narrated by Edoardo Ballerini.… Narrating largely from Mace's point of view, Ballerini portrays him as an unflappable, stoic loner who helps a single mother and her son escape the grasp of the boy's father, a vicious L.A. gangbanger…. Ballerini's performance of the cat-and-mouse game between Mace and Calaphas is riveting.” —AudioFile Magazine, Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award“A master of the suspense thriller genre, After Death is still another brilliant, original, memorable, and entertaining novel [from] master storyteller Dean Koontz. Deftly narrated by voice actor Edoardo Ballierini, …[this] will have a special appeal for fans of conspiracy thrillers and science fiction adventures.” —Midwest Book Review“Koontz has always had near-Dickensian powers of description and an ability to yank us from one page to the next that few novelists can match.” —Los Angeles Times

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