THE HOUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
►RELEASED OUT NOW! 416 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook
►Author Dean Koontz
►Publisher Thomas & Mercer
Dean Koontz is famously a “semi-libertarian”, one whose mistrust of Those In Power has a tendency to manifest in his novels as a finger-wagging didacticism of Glasgow-kiss subtlety. Which is fine when he’s writing exciting, pacy thrillers full of great ideas and likeable characters, as he often does. Not so great when he churns out derivative tosh like The House At The End Of The World, which feels like The Koontz Manifesto stapled to a horror B-movie template. It starts well. Katie is a reclusive artist with a tragic past who lives alone on an island in a lake. One night she witnesses some suspicious activity on a nearby island, which she suspects is housing some secret government project. Then something arrives on her island, with men in black in hot pursuit.