Keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. Now her art and her child are enough for her. She doesn't really care whether critical acclaim waxes or wans she's just grateful to have discovered that there was life after life after her first life ended with the death of her husband, Jason. Widowed at age 30, she is an artist whose paintings are quickly gaining a following. Megan Bookman – Woody's mother, who loves him with all her heart.
He is also an accomplished computer hacker. He taught himself to read at age 4 and was reading at the college level by age 7. Woody has been diagnosed with a rare form of autism, although he is also a high-functioning autodidact with a high IQ. Woody Bookman – an 11-year-old boy who has never spoken a word. Now, with Devoted, he again features a very special Golden Retriever around whom the story revolves. All together, Dean Koontz has written four novels where one of the main characters is a dog. Today they live with their Golden Retriever Elsa and the enduring spirits of Goldens Anna and Trixie.Īll of us Koontz fans have read Watchers, which featured a very smart Golden Retriever. He has written 3 books from the point of view of Trixie, the first Golden that he and wife, Gerda, owned, plus a memoir about Trixie after her death. Only a force greater than evil can stop what's coming next.Long-time fans of Dean Koontz know he is a dog-lover and, in particular, of Golden Retrievers. And he's coming after Woody and his mother. A man driven by a malicious evil has set a depraved plan into motion. Woody's fearful suspicions are taking shape. When he hears the boy who communicates like he does, without speaking, Kipp knows he needs to find him before it's too late. An ally unknown to him is listening.Ī uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his breed, Kipp is devoted beyond reason to people. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his eleven years of life.
Has every mark of a classic." -Associated Press "Canine or human, it is hard to find a more lovable character in fiction than Kipp. From Dean Koontz, the master of suspense, comes an epic thriller about a terrifying killer and the singular compassion it will take to defeat him.
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