He figured it was little more than a year old, for though it had attained the better part of its full growth, it retained some of the sprightliness of a puppy. It was a golden retriever, pure of breed by the look of it. He has come to think of himself as a jinx anybody whom he cares for dies.Īs Travis was about to step out of the sun and continue, a dog burst from the dry brush on his right and ran straight to him, panting and chuffing.

As a member of the Special Forces in the military, he was the only survivor of his team. The protagonist of Watchers, Travis Cornell, is introduced as a 36-year-old loner who is going hiking in the hills of Southern California with a gun, mostly to protect himself against rattlesnakes, but maybe to commit suicide. … overriding all of this, an inspiring dog story whose suspense is based on a series of threats to a very special dog.

Kotker argues that it is a successful combination of science-fiction, suspense, a technothriller, a love story, a police procedural, gangster fiction and: In a detailed analysis in Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers (1996), Joan G. Watchers, his most popular novel, straddles the border between science-fiction and “realistic” suspense fiction involving genetic engineering. He was originally considered a science-fiction author (his 1975 far-future Nightmare Journey contains talking evolved descendents of animals), but he soon established a reputation as one of the leading authors of horror/suspense fiction with s-f, fantasy, or supernatural elements.

Your rating: None Average: 3.2 ( 11 votes)ĭean Koontz first came to the public’s attention in the early 1970s.

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