Strangers

Name: Strangers
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.89 (54 reviews)
Author: Dean Koontz
ISBN: 9781423339519

Author: Dean Koontz

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 29 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 07/29/2008

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

“The plot twists ingeniously...an engaging, often chilling book.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA writer in California. A doctor in Boston. A motel owner and his employee in Nevada. A priest in Chicago. A robber in New York. A little girl in Las Vegas. They’re a handful of people from across the country, living through eerie variations of the same nightmare. A dark memory is calling out to them. And soon they will be drawn together, deep in the heart of a sprawling desert, where the terrifying truth awaits...

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

AudiobooksNow review by Terri on 2008-03-06 18:11:33

I had hard time putting this book down. It is long, but it is worth the wait. I even considered taking a mental health day from work just to keep reading.

AudiobooksNow review by Stacey on 2009-09-16 14:23:04

I am a huge Dean Koontz fan, but I thought this was one of the most boring books I've ever read. I read about 500 pages of it kept telling myself it would get better and finally sent it back. I have NEVER given up on a book without finishing it before, but I got to the point where I just didn't care how it ended.

Goodreads review by Dirk on May 11, 2013

"We may be teetering on the brink of a whole new world. Are you ready for it?" This review is complicated for me. Dean Koontz’s Strangers is an amalgamation of many things: techno-thriller; psychological horror; science fiction. It’s quite unlike DK’s other 1980s novels. The book does contain some pr......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on March 13, 2018

Picture me beating my head against a wall...or a table....or a desk, or something. Dean Koontz can write a good book, he's written several that rate among my favorites. This isn't one. To be fair different books by DK rate high and low with different people. I've read that this was his first best sel......more

Goodreads review by Craig on May 19, 2022

Strangers was one of Koontz's first long, successful, big mash-up novels, with elements of suspense, mystery, science fiction, romance, Western, tech-thriller, intrigue, and any other flavor you'd care to suggest. I also thought it was the most similar to Stephen King's brand, including the a-little......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on August 08, 2023

I had read this before, and I remember loving it. This time around, not so much. Dean Koontz has a verbosity that most times reaches the depths of soul, such that it resonates in the reader because the reader has felt those emotions before. This novel has verbosity that just drones on and on. He beg......more

Goodreads review by Maciek on April 24, 2010

Strangers (1986) "Strangers" is not your typical Koontz book. It was his first hardcover bestseller and the first book he wrote without resorting to outlines. Plus it bears a glowing endorsment from Stephen King, who states that it's "The best novel he has written!". The novel is concerned with a group......more

Quotes

“A unique spellbinder that captures the reader on the first page. Exciting, enjoyable, and an intensely satisfying read.”—Mary Higgins Clark

“[Koontz] is a great storyteller, and Strangers features a plot so original you’ll be reading, with chills, well into the morning.”—New York Daily News

“Koontz is a master at constructing vivid, eerily realistic worlds that hold readers spellbound. A memorable thriller.”—Booklist