
Dean Koontz - Velocity
Harper Collins (paperback), £6.99 – out now
William Wiles is a thirty-something failed writer, working a bar in Napa County , U-S-of-A. Billy enjoys a simple life working the bar, listening to other peoples conversations, until one day he finishes his shift and finds a note on the windscreen of his SUV: ‘If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher somewhere in Napa County . If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours.'
That same note is pasted across the front of Velocity, a book that for once you certainly can judge by its front cover: fast, complex, intelligent and full of choices that no person should have to make. Dean Koontz has come up with yet another top story for his army of followers. Velocity, quite simply, does exactly what it says on the tin! James Cocks
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