The Key To Midnight

tags: Dean Koontz, mystery, romance 

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From Goodreads

This book was originally published under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols.

Who is Joanna Rand? Alex Hunter hasn't come to Japan to fall in love. But Joanne Rand is the most beautiful, exciting woman he has ever met. But Joanne is not who she thinks she is.

Ten years before, and halfway across the world, a brutally bizarre experiment recreated her mind. A violation so hideous that her dreams are filled with terror and her memories are a lie.

If they are ever to be free, Alex and Joanna have to reopen the dangerous door into the nightmare past. Somehow they have to find the key to midnight.

I hardly read any books by Dean Koontz published in the 70s and 80s. Dean Koontz explained that he revised the original 1979 edition, cutting 30,000 words and adding 5,000 and in August 2010, he released a "better" version in paperback. My Kindle copy was issued on November 30, 2021. 

The book is a mash-up of murder mystery, romance, Russian infiltrators, sci-fi. It is not the best Dean Koontz novel and it reads like a lethargic James Bond movie. Still a good enough read and I enjoyed it.