Watchers

Name: Watchers
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.26 (111 reviews)
Author: Dean Koontz
ISBN: 9781978637160

Author: Dean Koontz

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Dean Koontz

Unabridged: 16 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 05/22/2018

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

Winner of the 2019 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator with an afterword read by the authorA “superior thriller” (Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods.That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation...

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 Emily May on July 30, 2018

I know this is a classic for many readers but I expected more, honestly. Watchers is my first read by Koontz so I have nothing to compare it to, but my first wander into his mind was disappointing. And a little weird. It could partly be that this particular book doesn't withstand the test of time. Th......more

Goodreads review by Simeon on October 28, 2011

Unputdownable, with surprisingly deep characterization, and a super-smart dog that runs around adorably. + a nightmarish monster that escapes a laboratory and starts munching on the peaceful population of modern suburbia. An immaculate mix of horror, romance, and action.......more

Goodreads review by Scott on October 17, 2024

I once went through a Dean Koontz phase, which involved me going to the bookstore and completely clearing an entire shelf's worth of Koontz paperbacks. I voraciously devoured them all in a relatively short span. (I'm pretty sure I missed a few meals and a shower or two.) What Koontz lacks in literar......more

Goodreads review by Elle_bow on December 30, 2023

This was the very first proper horror book I read that wasn’t YA and my god I loved it. I thought it was so good and absolutely chilling. I really couldn’t get enough of it and became super invested in the story and thought it was a super interesting plot.......more

Goodreads review by Maciek on December 27, 2009

Very overrated...I had high expectations for the book, because of the almost universal applause it gets...and it turned out to be yet another Koontz dog novel. The characters in this novel are shallow and cardboard - the ex delta force soldier, a widower, falls in love with an abused woman. Of course......more

Quotes

“His best story yet! Cross Lassie with E.T., add a touch of The Wolfen and a dash of The Godfather, and you get a sense of some of the ingredients in this thriller....this is the sort of thoroughly frightening and entertaining tale that has its readers listening for noises in the night.”—Publishers Weekly“His best ever, an imaginative and unusual blend of sense and sentiment. A fable about love and trust...with echoes of Frankenstein and The Island of Dr. Moreau. A breakthrough for Koontz.”—Kirkus Reviews“Displaying...more depth and a lot more humor than Stephen King, Dean Koontz has really hit his stride.”—The New York Times Book Review