The secret behind the mayhem, which is delivered at breakneck speed, concerns a ""scientific"" breakthrough into ""mystical"" truth that Koontz presents like an absentminded professor. Joe witnesses relatives of the crash victims commit senseless suicide, learns that the woman, a genetic scientist, was on the plane but miraculously survived, finds out that she is the quarry of a military-industrial cabal and gains hope that one of his daughters also may have survived. A visit to their graves wrenches his life around when he spots a black woman taking photos of the site and sees her set upon by thugs. A year after the crash, Joe, who lost his wife and two daughters, is a walking dead man. 11), this novel focuses on the aftermath of an airline disaster, a crash that has apparently killed all on board and has ravaged the soul of L.A. Like Crichton's Airframe (also from Knopf Forecasts, Nov. And that's too bad, because this tale is emblematic of how, in 15 years of bestsellers, Koontz has bridged the commercial gap between the occultism of Stephen King and the scientism of Michael Crichton. Here, the insulation-the preaching about societal rot and spiritual redemption-is back on, thicker than ever. Koontz's last thriller, Intensity, delivered shocks like a stripped hot wire.
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