Breathless

tags: mystery, spiritual, supernatural

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure, as the lives of strangers converge around a mystery unfolding high in the Colorado mountains—and the balance of the world begins to tilt….

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 enchantment. That night, through the trees, under the moon, 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 all the forces of a government in peril to her door.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 readers 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.

Breathless is one of Dean Koontz books that I skipped reading because at the time the synopsis sounded the same as his other books. I was wrong to presume that Breathless has the same old same old supernatural sci-fi mystery. Good against evil is ever present but the story is more spiritual IMHO. Maybe I'm wrong but that's my opinion. The novel dismisses the belief of man's evolution and I agree with the novel that there is a creator. Grady Adams and his friend Camilla believe that the animals with human like intelligence that suddenly materialized in the woods belong to a new "created" species and did not evolve from some organism. Puzzle and Riddle, the names given to them by Grady Adams, are not only cute like small children, but very intelligent and adapt quickly to humans and the Irish Wolfhound. Although they cannot speak, they have their own way of communicating.

The novel also shows the government's overreaction to the phenomenon, sending loads and loads of armed personnel by air and ground trying to intimidate Grady and Camilla so they can examine and possibly incarcerate the creatures. What they didn't know at the time is there are thousands of Puzzles and Riddles scattered around the globe. They are outsmarted by the creatures, Grady, and Camilla with help from the government's own agency head. As always, happy positive outcome for the good guys and the evil ones get the punishment they deserve.

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Recently, I've been searching for DK old books in eBook format that I have not read before. His new releases are no longer available as eBooks from the library because they are issued exclusively by Amazon Kindle for free to borrow if you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber. I am not willing to pay for subscription and am also averse to touching hard copies from the library, unless I wear gloves while reading which will make me look weird. 😦