Frankenstein: City of Night: A Novel

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Random House Publishing Group, Jun 29, 2007 - Fiction - 496 pages
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of…

Dean Koontz's City of the Night

They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created—and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios—once Frankenstein—can stop the engineered killers he’s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time “monster” and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion’ s centuries-old history began as Victor’s first and failed attempt to build the perfect human–and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad 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.


BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.

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Page 292 - Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
Page 165 - The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Page 218 - CURIoSITY is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Page 291 - Lulana, on further consideration, pushed her chair away from the table and got to her feet, Michael's cell phone rang.
Page 62 - Christine let go of his hair, he took his finger out of his mouth and stared at it, bewildered.

About the author (2007)

Dean Koontz, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirit of their goldens, Trixie and Anna.

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