The Face: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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Acknowledged as “America’s most popular suspense novelist”(Rolling Stone ) and asone of today’s most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Koontz has earned thedevotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywherefor tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what itmeans to be human. Now he delivers the page-turner of the season, an unforgettablejourney to the heart of darkness and to the pinnacle of grace, at once chilling andwickedly funny, a brilliantly observed chronicle of good and evil in our time, ofillusion and everlasting truth.

He’s Hollywood’s most dazzling star, whose flawlesscountenance inspires the worship ofmillions and fires the hatred of one twistedsoul. His perfectly ordered existence is under siege as a series of terrifying, enigmatic“messages” breaches the exquisitely calibrated security systems of hislegendaryBel Air estate.

The boxes arrive mysteriously, one by one, at Channing Manheim’sfortified compound. The threat implicit in their bizarre, disturbing contents seemsto escalate with each new delivery. Manheim’s security chief, ex-cop Ethan Truman,is used to looking beneath the surface of things. But until he entered the orbitof a Hollywood icon, he had no idea just how slippery reality could be. Now thisgood man is all that stands in the way of an
insidious killer—and forces that eclipsethe most fevered fantasies of a city where dreams and nightmares are the stuff ofdaily life. As a seemingly endless and ominous rain falls over southern California,Ethan will test the limits of perception and endurance in a world where the truthis as thin as celluloid and answers can be found only in the illusory intersectionof shadow and light.

Enter a world of marvelous invention, enchantment, and implacableintent, populated by murderous actors and the walking dead, hit men and heroes, long-burieddreams and never-dying hope.

Here a magnificent mansion is presided over by a Scottishforce of nature known as Mrs. McBee, before whom all men tremble. A mad French chefconcocts feasts for the mighty and the malicious. Ming du Lac, spiritual adviserto the stars, has a direct line to the dead. An aptly named cop called Hazard willbecome Ethan’s ally, an anarchist will sow discord and despair, and a young boy namedFric, imprisoned by celebrity and loneliness, will hear a voice telling him of theapproach of something unimaginably evil. Traversing this extraordinary landscape,Ethan will face the secrets of his own tragic past and the unmistakable premonitionof his impending violent death as he races against time to solve the macabre riddlesof a modern-day beast.

A riveting tour de force of suspense, mystery, and miraculousrevelation, The Face is that rare novel that entertains, provokes, and uplifts atthe same time. It will make you laugh. It will give you chills. It will fill youwith hope.

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz’s The City.