Have multiple copies getting rid of one.

RELEASE NOTES:

just starting to get into koontz so thanks for this one

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

If you found this book while in the area of San Luis Obispo, CA. feel free to come by and check out Joe Mommas which houses our bookshelf! We also hold our local meetups on the first Tuesday of each month at 5pm there, please come join the fun! The books on the shelf are free to for you to read, enjoy and pass along to another!

putting into my Spring ABC Bookbox for another fabulous bookcrosser to read and enjoy!

"A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. All kinds of mischief can be caused, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. For better or worse, it's completely out of your control."
Paul Auster

Not a Koontz fan.

This book enjoyed a brief visit in San Jose, California before continuing its travels in the 'ABC Bookbox!'

Selecting from princess-peapod's Spring ABC Bookbox.

With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes—and the pulse rate—higher than any other author. Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel ever, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself—and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever.

What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill?

We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he’s standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.

Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. He has Mitch’s wife and he’s named the price for her safe return. The caller doesn’t care that Mitch runs a small two-man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum. He’s confident that Mitch will find a way.

If he loves his wife enough. . . Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself. He’s got seventy-two hours to prove it. He has to find the two million by then. But he’ll pay a lot more. He’ll pay anything.

From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is a thriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist, every shock, every revelation…until it lets you go, unmistakably changed. This is a Dean Koontz novel, after all. And there’s no other experience quite like it.

Adding to Svoight's Mystery VBB.

Sounds good - years back,I read several of Koontz's early books until they all started running together and I couldn't remember which ones I'd read (also happened with Danielle Steele) and so I just stopped getting them. But this one sounds too good to pass up.

Mitch is just an average guy. He's in his late 20s. He's only got one guy working for him, but he is trying to build his landscaping business. He's loves his wife and hopes to build family with her someday. It's just another day, planting flowers for other folks, when he gets the call that changes his life. His wife has been abducted and he has 3 days to obtain $2 million ransom. He tells the caller that there's no way that he can scrape up that much, but the caller thinks he can.

This is just the start of the roller coaster ride that this novel is. Mitch is in a situation where his love for his wife has to carry him through. He's repeatedly tested. As an example of their sincerity, a dog walker is killed on the street where Mitch is working. As the story progresses, the kidnappers gradually turn up the heat, until Mitch becomes a different guy. One who will do anything to get his wife back.

The book is a page turner and there are several big twists along the way. However, I would say that the ending was a bit too pat.