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Koontz writes in chapter one

The sky is a mirror to the truth of the earth, for in these times—as perhaps in all times—the earth is a terrible darkness with as few points of light as those that glimmer in the vault of the heavens, and the moon on

“The cold tide of evil rises relentlessly. Although the dikes that resist it can be built higher, the power of such an insistent tide is greater