They’re a multinational high-tech business, doing secret research on life extension and transhumanism. Lee Shackett is an executive for the company that killed Jason Bookman. But Dorothy is dying, and Kipp isn’t sure what his future will be. They communicate telepathically with one another on what they call “the Wire.” Most of them keep their intelligence a secret from their owners, but Kipp has revealed himself to his elderly owner Dorothy, who has invented a device that allows him to “type” messages to her. There are a number of such dogs living around the west coast.

Kipp is a Golden Labrador who possesses the full intelligence of a human being. Jason Bookman did not die by accident he was murdered by his employers. She does not know that her boy has been doing research on the Dark Web, trying to uncover the truth behind the death of his father. His beautiful mother Megan, an artist and a widow, adores him and lives for him. He is also autistic he has never spoken a word. Woodrow “Woody” Bookman, an eleven-year-old genius, is the central character of Dean Koontz’s latest novel, Devoted. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction. Scary, sickening (in that good way), and touching, this is a novel that will delight both the author's legion of fans and those who finally decide it's time to find out what this guy Koontz is all about.Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. His new novel finds him still at the top of his game. 'Readers who were wondering how Koontz could possibly follow up his remarkable Jane Hawk series can breathe a sigh of relief. And he's coming after Woody and his mother. A malicious man driven by evil has set a depraved plan into motion. Woody's fearful suspicions are taking shape.

But Woody believes a monstrous evil is behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. Not when his mother Megan tells him she loves him.įor Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his eleven years of life. The chilling, unputdownable new novel from Dean Koontz, the master of suspense.Ī mother, a boy, and a desperate battle against the night.

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