Quicksilver

tags: fantasy, horror, mystery, sci-fi, supernatural

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Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery―abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of “strange magnetism.” It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life.

During a shoot-out at a forlorn dude ranch, he finally meets his destined companions: Bridget Rainking, a beauty as gifted in foresight as she is with firearms, and her grandpa Sparky, a romance novelist with an unusual past. Bridget knows what it’s like to be Quinn. She’s hunted, too. The only way to stay alive is to keep moving.

Barreling through the Sonoran Desert, the formidable trio is impelled by that same inexplicable magnetism toward the inevitable. With every deeply disturbing mile, something sinister is in the rearview―an enemy that is more than a match for Quinn. Even as he discovers within himself resources that are every bit as scary.

Another 5 star sci-fi mystery thriller with a touch of Koontz' political slant which is slightly right leaning so if you are a screaming leftist fascist democrat, you might not like the novel.

Quinn and Bridget see alien-like monsters the trio encounter and eliminate whom they dub "Screamers". The "Screamers" don't have facial features like eyes and nose. They have a large toothless maw that looks like Edvard Munch's The Scream. Reminds me so much of this screaming woman upon learning Ultra MAGA King President Trump won the 2016 presidential elections. Dean Koontz probably was thinking of this screamer when he started writing the novel.😁😁😁

The trio's first priority is getting rid of a false prophet whose victims are abducted and made into slaves to work for his organization's rich elite members. Think NXIVM, an alleged sex cult covered up as a self-help group. The "Screamers" they further encounter will have to wait after the rescue of the victims.

This is interesting:

The 3 men who found 3 day old baby Quinn Quicksilver in the middle of a highway have similar names to the Three Kings or magi who visited the newborn baby Jesus Christ - Kaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. After finishing reading the book, I was wondering what the significance could be and if this would be a series just like Odd Thomas. Quinn, Bridget, and grandpa Sparky went to see Kaspar only; the other 2 did not appear again in the book.