| “The Good Guy” by Dean Koontz is one of the best thrillers that I have ever read. I own so many of Mr. Koontz books that I was suffering from Koontz overload and thought I’d stay clear of him for a while. However, on a recent trip to the public library in Lincoln Park, NJ, I decided to browse the fiction section and I found this gem of a book. I read the first couple of pages and was hooked. This is a masterful novel that you cannot put down once started. The premise of the book is that a good guy sitting at a bar is approached by a total stranger and given $10,000 to murder a woman called |
Linda. The stranger assumes that the “good guy” is a hit man. The real hit man walks in a while later and strikes up a conversation with the good guy. Tim, the good guy, hands over the money to the hit man and tells him that he has had a change of heart.
This beginning would get anyone interested in what happens next and that is exactly what happened to me. I was not disappointed with this story. Dean Koontz weaves an intricate tale that is better than any suspenseful movie I have ever seen. The assassin is a bad-ass who seems to be well connected and who kills relentlessly and without one bit of mercy or guilt.
No one is exactly what you are led to believe in the book. You discover near the end of the book, the true nature of the “good guy” and his, and Linda’s past. The writing is excellent and enchanting. Here are the two first sentences of the book: “Sometimes a mayfly skates across a pond, leaving a brief wake as thin as spider silk, and by staying low avoids those birds and bats that feed in flight. At six feet three, weighing two hundred ten pounds, with big hands and bigger feet, Timothy Carrier could not maintain a profile as low as that of a skating mayfly, but he tried.
I recommend this book highly. Buy one now, or go to the Lincoln Park (NJ) library or one closer to you and borrow it.
