Dean Koontz’s enthralling Frankenstein series has redefined the classic legend of infernal ambition and harrowing retribution for a new century and a new age. Now the master of suspense delivers an unforgettable novel that is at once a thrilling adventure in itself and a mesmerizing conclusion to his saga of the modern monsters among us.
 
FRANKENSTEIN: THE DEAD TOWN
 
The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors come together to weather the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world. As they ready for battle against overwhelming odds, they will learn the full scope of Victor Frankenstein’s nihilistic plan to remake the future—and the terrifying reach of his shadowy, powerful supporters.

Now the good will make their last, best stand. In a climax that will shatter every expectation, their destinies and the fate of humanity hang in the balance.

“Jocko was a tumor. Well he started out as a tumor-like lump… Then he became self-aware. A tumor with attitude. Hopes and dreams. And he grew fast. Later he burst out of that host body. Became something more than a tumor. Something better.

He became a monster. Some people screamed when they saw Jocko. Others fainted. Birds dive-bombed him. Cats hissed and rats fled squeaking. Jocko was a very effective monster…

A monster was a more respectable thing to be than a mere tumor. Nobody liked a tumor. What was to like? But they wrote books about monsters. Made movies about them, too. People liked some monsters as much as they feared them.

When you started out as a tumor with a brain, you had nowhere to go but up

Koontz brings the five-volume Deucalion series to a satisfying conclusion in this book, which is really just the second half of the story begun in volume four, Lost Souls. (I thought that the first three books came to a satisfying conclusion, too, so what do I know? And props to the author for ending it when he could have drug it out to a second trilogy.) The plot has a few wonky and questionable spots, but is consistent with what has gone before, so I’m sure that anyone who made it through the first four will enjoy this one. This one seems to be more about the characters than most of his other novels from the same time, and they all take their curtain call with aplomb. Koontz mixes humor with tension to create suspenseful entertainment very successfully.