Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: City of Night

by KOONTZ, DEANGORMAN, ED

• ISBN13: 9780553587890
• ISBN10: 0553587897
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2005-07-26
• Publisher: Bantam

Summary

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 createdand they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Heliosonce Frankensteincan 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 humanand 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 imaginedan indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us. From the Paperback edition.

Author Biography

DEAN KOONTZ is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives with his wife Gerda and their dog Trixie in southern California.

ED GORMAN has written in practically every genre imaginable, from suspense and mysteries to science fiction and horror. His work has appeared in magazines as various as Redbook, Ellery Queen, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Poetry Today. He is also the founder, along with Robert J. Randisi, of Mystery Scene magazine.