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Intensity

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By: Dean Koontz
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
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Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.

Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive - until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess’s next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl...as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.

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Critic reviews

“Chills the reader to the core and establishes Koontz as a master.”—Associated Press

“Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose . . . The story does not move so much as rocket up the . . . gloomy highway with the reader in violent pursuit.”—The New York Times

“The most viscerally exciting thriller of the year.”—Publishers Weekly

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Absolutely brilliant. Tense from start to finish. Highly recommend!! As usual Dean Koontz at his best!

Intense!!

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i had read this book some years ago, I still very much love the story line, but I felt the narration was very monotone and lacked emotion, which let it down a little for me.

great story, not loving narrator

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Fantastic story, brilliantly read. The tension throughout is palpable, at some points I could feel myself hold my breath through anxious fear and fear of getting Chyna caught.

Fear inducing brilliance.

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The story is fast paced and engaging. It was difficult to stop listening as it keeps you wondering what next.

Engaging

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There were a lot of great reviews when I chose this but I have no idea why. The storyline was ok but a bit slow and very predictable. The writing was like a dictionary full of similies. The narration was just dreadful. The narrator just ignored all the punctuation and instead read six words at a time followed by sickenly long pauses. Spend your credit somewhere else.

Dreadful Narration

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