Dark Rivers of the Heart / Sole Survivor / Intensity

by Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz is one of the world's top-selling authors with total worldwide sales of his novels at 225 million copies! He achieves what few writers can: he creates books that consistently jump to the top of the bestseller lists in both hardcover and paper. His newest novel had a half-million copy first printing, and it went straight to the Number One position in its first week on The New York Times and Publishers Weekly Bestseller lists! His many fans will snap up this handsome foil-and-embossed volume, with three of his best works in one book. The perfect impulse buy or gift. The collection includes the complete and unabridged novels Dark Rivers of the Heart, Intensity, and Sole Survivor.

Genres: Fiction, Suspense, Horror, Survival, Government, Politics, Womens

700 pages, Hardcover

First published October 28, 2001

About the author

Acknowledged as "America's most popular suspense novelist" (Rolling Stone) and as one of today's most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Ray Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means to be human.

Dean, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirit of their goldens, Trixie and Anna.

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Reviews

[Shirley Hartman-Rozee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thoroughly engaging book with rapid twists and turns. One of the main characters is Spencer, a troubled soul trying without success to remember details of a traumatic event that happened at the age of 14. Spencer met a young waitress in a diner and fell in love. Finding out she never showed for work the next day, he sets out to find her and thereby becomes the target of an obsessed rogue FBI agent who badly wants the young waitress killed. Spencer eventually tracks the waitress, who he knows as Valarie, to Las Vegas. It is there or I should say in the deserts outside Las Vegas that serious stuff starts to happen to Spencer and Valarie. Beginning with one heck of a car/helicopter chase with Roy, the rogue FBI agent almost catching them, and then the return to Spencer’s old home to try to boost his memories that he has kept hidden for twenty years, the pair—with Rocky the traumatized dog—eventually break through Spencer’s mind block. Interesting, with thrills, suspense and hijinks galore, it’s a fun read.

[Thea · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked this book and will try to read the others.

[Victoria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sole Survivor: I started reading Koontz novels a long time ago - my dad and I would swap them back and forth on vacations. Although with a premise like this one (a plane crash!), I was happy to read it in the comfort of my own home, and not while in a plane!! This was a very interesting book - well, an interesting set-up for the story, at any rate. The most fascinating - as well as the saddest parts of the book were definitely those poor psychic test study kids, but there just wasn't as much about them as I would have liked. And, really, the end was a little unsatisfying as nothing was done about those kids at all. And the side-story that suddenly turned into the main one, about religion, was a disappointment and a surprise to come from this author. Overall, Koontz’s books are still fun, and he’s definitely a prolific and talented writer, but this just isn’t his finest work. It isn’t his worst, either, though.

[Cheryl Baker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Intensity is my favorite Dean Koontz book. It grabs you from page one and does not let go until the last sentence. My heart was in my throat the entire book. One of my favorite books by ant author.

[Sarah Beauchamp · Rating 2 out of 5]

Intensity is the only one I read. I was disappointed. I thought it was rather predictable and VERY repetitive boring even.

[TH0TP0CKETS · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable

[Jodi Walk]

Absolutely loved dark rivers of the heart, my favorite poem is quoted in this book.

[Denise · Rating 5 out of 5]

Of these 3 Sole Survivor was my favorite but love them all.

[Jesse · Rating 5 out of 5]

i've read all 3 and there all great reads!

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Intensity is one of the BEST books I have ever read!

[Brian · Rating 1 out of 5]

I only read Intensity. I read enough to get the gist of it, but didn't finish it. I got enough questions right on the AR test to qualify as having read it though.