By: Dean Koontz Publisher: Bantam Average Rating: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Label: Bantam Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 416 Publication Date: April 04, 2000 Release Date: April 04, 2000
Product Description: A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead -- no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter.
A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any questions, she slips away.
Driven now by rage (have the authorities withheld information?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (if there is one survivor, are there others?), Joe sets out to find the mysterious woman. His search immediately leads him into the path of a powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rose before she can reveal what she knows about the crash.
Sole Survivor unfolds at a heart-stopping pace, as a desperate chase and a shattering emotional odyssey lead Joe to a truth that will force him to reassess everything he thought he knew about life and death -- a truth that, given the chance, will rock the world and redefine the destiny of humanity.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Amazon.com Review: Joe Carpenter, the hero of Dean Koontz's newest novel, Sole Survivor, is a man nearly paralyzed by grief. One year earlier, his wife and two children had been among the 230 victims of a plane crash that left no survivors. So when Joe encounters a woman who claims to have been aboard that plane and survived the catastrophe, and then she almost immediately disappears, he is understandably riled up. In the course of trying to track this woman down, Joe finds himself entangled in a web of shadowy conspiracy and perilous secrets.
In this latest book, Koontz pumps up the volume and gives his readers what they've come to expect from him: an expert mix of cover ups, cults, bizarre suicides, and a shocking twist at the end that keeps Sole Survivor racing along from one improbable but undeniably thrilling event to the next.
My Seatback... in an Upright Position The takeoff was on time, flight smooth, and landing... well, a crash. I love how Dean Koontz can twist what you may believe to be supernatural into what is actually fact. And in some cases, it ends up being supernatural after all.
In any case, it's Koontz's characters that make the difference in this tale. For me, this Sole Survivor was the book which allowed me to take Koontz out of his horror box and accept him in different genres.
Bravo From the very first page I was hooked. I had never read any of Dean Koontz's books before but,for some reason this book caught my attention. The pace of this book didn't slow down for a moment. I really enjoyed how the author took special care in making sure that the reader understood the emotions each of the main characters were feeling. In return, I was able to better connect with each character on a different level, allowing me to enjoy the book even more. This book isn't hard to follow and throughout the whole book from beginning to end you keep asking yourself the same question. What in the world is going on here? I could not put this book down nor did I want to in the end so for this I say BRAVO to Dean Koontz.
somewhat anticlimactic i thoroughly enjoyed this book right up until the very end. a riveting and thought-provoking story overall. i wasn't sure what to expect in terms of an ending, but i was a bit disappointed by how koontz did this one. still, anything of his is worth a look in my opinion.
Boring... I just got done reading Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz and was overall disappointed. I read and own his book Watchers (which I think is an awesome book) and this one no where compares to it. Sole Survivor starts out slow, which is understandable because it is building the story line, but throughout the book it never really picks up a whole lot. There is a lot of rambling, and I had to keep reading parts over again because I would get lost in all of the scientific and off-topic jargon and unneccesary details and descriptions. There are some really good parts in the book that get you to the "edge of your seat" and some really decriptive scenes that play well in the story, but all in all I was just really bored with it. I almost quit reading it several times, but managed to finish it. I probably won't read it again.
Wow Dean Koontz is a master of twists and turns and thrills. I loved this book. If you like Dean Koontz or thillers, then this book is for you!
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