Dean Koontz is a master of his craft In The Good Guy, he creates another one of his trademark good guys... [and] one of the most interesting serial killers ever to grace the printed page. How to avoid capture in this age ofhigh-tech surveillance? It's an interesting problem, and one that will keep readers turning the pages. But it's the revelation of character.., that is really rewarding for the reader. Chalk up another one for,the good guy, who knows how to search for a small patch of light as darkness threatens all around.

Timothy Carrier thinks he is engaging in a few minutes of harmless banter with the stranger who takes a seat beside him at the bar he frequents. But the jittery man has mistaken Tim for someone else--and passes him an envelope stuffed with cash and the photo of a pretty woman marked for death. "Ten thousand now. You get the rest when she's gone." Suddenly, Tim Carrier is at the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions, the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer as relentless as evil incarnate.But first he must discover resources within himself of which he never dreamed, capacities that will transform his idea of who he is and what it takes to be The Good Guy.