Breathless / Relentless

by Dean Koontz, Jeff Cummings (Reading), Dan John Miller (Reading)

BREATHLESS: In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow into light…and into an encounter with mystery. That night, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady’s isolated home, waiting to make their approach.

A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring to her door all the forces of a government in peril.

At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to begin a descent into darkness.… In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable.… On a Seattle golf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murder.… Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek toward his destiny.…

In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes listeners into the moment between one turn of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and mystery. It is a journey that will leave all who take it Breathless.

RELENTLESS: Literary critic Shearman Waxx can kill a good book with just a few acidly worded bon mots. And as one unlucky author is about to discover, that’s not all he’s prepared to kill.…

From #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz comes a mesmerizing thriller about the battle of wills that ensues when a successful author and likable family man confronts a reclusive sociopath who wields an all-too-deadly poison pen. Respect Shearman Waxx’s opinion and you might escape with your career intact. Cross him and he’ll destroy you, your family, and everything you hold dear. For the title “America’s most feared critic” isn’t one Waxx takes lightly. He takes it literally. And now Cubby Greenwich, his wife, Penny, their brilliant six-year-old, Milo, and their uniquely talented non-collie, Lassie, are about to learn the true meaning of “culture war.”

Audio CD

Published May 24, 2016

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

[Carrie Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Breathless was okay. It got better as it went along. The ending was a little of a drop. Relentless was great. Very suspenseful.

[Andrew Kinmont · Rating 1 out of 5]

Possibly one of the worst books I've ever read. It started off promisingly, with an intriguing plot. But the main characters were not at all believable, and the ending was one of the silliest, most ridiculous plot twists ever (related to a time/teleportation machine popping out of nowhere, invented by a 6 year old, which saves the day!). Honestly, I think he'd had enough of writing the novel, thought "I know, I'll just invent a teleportation machine to wrap up the story" , which then abruptly ends. God, reading this book is hours of my life I won't get back.

[Shari Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Breathless was one of the most hopeful and uplifting books I have read in a while! It might have been a little simplistic, and I don't know if the science was all that right, but it was a wonderful story! Relentless on the other hand was quite the opposite. At times and in theory it resembled a theme presented rather laboriously by Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead. Two sides of the same coin here.