Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book One: Prodigal Son
- 469 pages
- 17 hours of reading
A killer stalks the streets, he is a homicidal maniac, a freak of a mysterious origin, a tattooed man.
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Series
This series delves into the darker aspects of science and the human psyche, blurring the lines between life and death. Follow the thrilling pursuit of a monstrous creation and its mad creator, uncovering ancient conspiracies and questioning the very essence of humanity. These tales are packed with suspense, action, and philosophical undertones, exploring what it truly means to be human in a dangerous world.
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The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god
Dead and Alive
- 324 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god. Frankenstein lives! And so too does his monstrous creation ... but this creature of legend is a monster no more and his scarred face bears witness to his maker's wrath. His name is Deucalion. As a devastating hurricane approaches New Orleans, Victor Helios, once know as Frankenstein, has unleased his benighted creatures onto the streets. As New Orleans descends into chaos, his engineered killers spin out of control, and the only hope rests with Victor's first and failed attempt to build the perfect human, whose damned path has led him to the ultimate confrontation with his pitiless creator. But first, Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have imagined - an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us. This is a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz raises the stakes—and the suspense—taking his Frankenstein saga to a dynamic new level with the riveting story of a small town under siege, where good and evil, destruction and creation, converge as the fate of the world hangs in the balance. FRANKENSTEIN: LOST SOULS The war against humanity has begun. In the dead hours of the night, a stranger enters the home of the mayor of Rainbow Falls, Montana. The stranger is in the vanguard of a wave of intruders who will invade other homes . . . offices . . . every local institution, assuming the identities and the lives of those they have been engineered to replace. Before the sun rises, the town will be under full assault, the opening objective in the new Victor Frankenstein’s trajectory of ultimate destruction. Deucalion—Victor’s first, haunted creation—saw his maker die in New Orleans two years earlier. Yet an unshakable intuition tells him that Victor lives—and is at work again. Within hours Deucalion will come together with his old allies, detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison, Victor’s engineered wife, Erika Five, and her companion Jocko to confront new peril. Others will gather around them. But this time Victor has a mysterious, powerful new backer, and he and his army are more formidable, their means and intentions infinitely more deadly, than ever before.
The Dead Town
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
In a small town besieged by monstrous creatures, scattered survivors unite to confront a looming threat. As they prepare for battle, they uncover Victor Frankenstein's dark and nihilistic vision for humanity's future, revealing the chilling extent of his influential allies. The story explores themes of survival, resistance, and the moral implications of scientific ambition amid a backdrop of chaos and fear.