Intensity

Name: Intensity
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (14 reviews)
Author: Dean Koontz
ISBN: 9781543698688

Author: Dean Koontz

Narrator: Frankie Corzo

Unabridged: 13 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 05/22/2018

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Horror

Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPast midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive—until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess’s next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl . . . as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.

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 Alejandro on August 10, 2016

Intense!!! All right!!! PERFECT TITLE The title for this novel, Intensity... ...is truly well selected since this book is indeed... ...intense!!! You are barely getting confortable, starting to read the book, just a few pages, when... Bam! Kapow! Tomá guacho! The horror begins! So, if you are a horr......more

Goodreads review by Debbie "DJ" on June 07, 2017

OMG, I haven't read a book like this in years, and don't think I'll be reading one again any time soon. Intensity is the perfect name for this one. It starts right off with an intruder on a killing rampage, and never lets up. I know, how can I keep reading, but the suspense was beyond belief, and th......more

Goodreads review by Shariful on May 16, 2021

There are some books that i just give up on reading, for a multitude of reasons : bad writing, boring plot, poor characterisation. This book was all of these things, and only worsened when the author began writing from the killers point of view. I've never hate read a book before, but with an averag......more

Goodreads review by Skyler on December 02, 2017

3 Stars Chyna is taken to her best friend's family home for a mini break during the school year only to spend the first night hidden under the guest bed as a home invader proceeds to murder all the occupants. Having both an unusual and terrifying childhood Chyna has developed a skill set that has mad......more

Goodreads review by Cody | CodysBookshelf on May 04, 2019

Ask any Dean Koontz fan what their favorite Koontz book is, and the answer you will likely get is Watchers, or maybe Odd Thomas. Exceptions to this exist, of course, but those two titles seem to get the most love amongst his fanbase. Personally, my favorite was The City . . . Until I read Intensity.......more

Quotes

“Chills the reader to the core and establishes Koontz as a master.”—Associated Press

“Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose . . . The story does not move so much as rocket up the . . . gloomy highway with the reader in violent pursuit.”—The New York Times

“The most viscerally exciting thriller of the year.”—Publishers Weekly