Thursday, July 29, 2010

The Key to Midnight




By: Dean Koontz

In The Key to Midnight, Joanna Rand discovers why she has the phobias she has, and why a man walks into her bar, claiming that she is someone else...

Plot: Joanna Rand has a nice life.  She owns a nightclub in Kyoto called the Moonglow Lounge, sings every night, and enjoys her simple life in Japan.  But that all changes one night when a private investigator on vacation recognizes her from one of his old kidnapping cases.

Now she finds out that her name is Lisa Chelgrin, the daughter of Senator Thomas Chelgrin from Illinois.  Upon further exploration, she discovers the key to her phobias, and uncovers a plot that takes her from Japan to Switzerland, and involves countries that still have not let go of the Cold War.

Review:  This is a great rewrite of the original novel that Dean Koontz wrote under his old pseudonym Leigh Nichols, way back in 1979.  The flow is fast, the suspense is high, and the plot unravels at a nice steady pace
to keep the reader glued.  After reading this book, one questions how many remnants of the Cold War actually still exists, and how effective is hypnosis for behavior control.  Well worth the read.

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