Frankenstein : lost souls : a novel

Format:

Book

Title:

Frankenstein : lost souls : a novel

Other title(s):

Lost souls

Author:

Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945- author

ISBN:

9780553808018

9780553593679

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Bantam Books, [2010]

Physical Description:

350 pages ; 25 cm

Series title(s):

Frankenstein ;

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein ;

Number in series:

BK. 4.

Summary:

Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed--and tested--by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered.

Personal Subject:

Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)

Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character)

Subject(s):

Scientists -- Fiction.

Monsters -- Fiction.

Nanotechnology -- Fiction.

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Summary

Every city has secrets, but none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who's traveled centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer who stalks the streets, one who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that he is missing. Detective Carson O'Connor and her partner Michael Maddison get on the case and may just end up in Hell itself. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous.

Author Notes

Dean Koontz was born on July 9, 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania. He received a degree in education from Shippensburg State College in 1967. A former high school English teacher as well as a teacher-counselor with the Appalachian Poverty Program, he began writing as a child to escape an ugly home life caused by his alcoholic father. A prolific writer at a young age, he had sold a dozen novels by the age of 25. Early in his career, he wrote under numerous pen names including David Axton, Brian Coffey, K. R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols, Richard Paige, and Owen West. He is best known for the books written under his own name, many of which are bestsellers, including Midnight, Cold Fire, The Bad Place, Hideaway, The Husband, Odd Hours, 77 Shadow Street, Innocence, The City, Saint Odd, and The Silent Corner.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (4)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Set in Rainbow Falls, Mont., Koontz's goofy, grisly fourth riff on the Frankenstein theme (after Dead and Alive) finds Victor-previously presumed dead but apparently as easily resurrected as cinematic incarnations of his monster-perfecting his "New Race" of humanoid replicants. As affectless pod-person lookalikes gradually replace the town's citizens, the task of saving humanity from Victor and his megalomaniacal plans to "destroy the soul of the world" fall once again to husband-and-wife detectives Michael and Carson Maddison; Victor's soulsearching original monster, Deucalion; and a host of local yokels who provide both sympathy and comic relief. That the "good guys" are instantly recognizable by their abundant compassion, generosity, and sense of humor and the "bad guys" by their fussbudget fastidiousness and dedication to efficient extermination of inferior humans helps lay the foundation for the humanitarian homilies that punctuate the narrative. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Kirkus Review

In the fourth installment of his Frankenstein series (Dead and Alive, 2009, etc.), Koontz posits a new kind of vexation with the same old objective: Kill everybody.For reasons that may not prove perfectly clear to all readers, Koontz's Frankentstein has gone over, having dedicated himself to the obliteration of humankind: "the ultimate annihilator," he calls himself. In effect, Frankenstein and the monster have traded places. And dispositions. Shelley's monster was a card-carrying fright, prone to running amuck and scaring villagers. Koontz'sDeucalion by namehas had an epiphany and, having been redeemed, is now a committed Frankenstein-hunter. Deucalion is thoroughly aware of how slippery his foe is, and it rattles him. "I saw him die," he tells a friend. "But he lives again. Somehow...he lives." Collecting a pair of tested members of the Frankenstein-hunter fellowshipprivate eyes Carson O'Connor-Maddison and her husband MichaelDeucalion sets off after the bad doctor, convinced that if he isn't stopped Frankenstein will plague humankind with still another threat to its existence. He's right, of course. Enter the replicants: new and improved zombies, programmed for mass murder.Comic strip characters and pedestrian prosepretty silly stuff really, but we all know how it works for Koontz: 400,000,000 copies sold in 38 languages, give or take.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

*Starred Review* Lost Souls continues the saga of the seemingly unkillable Victor Frankenstein, now a megalomaniac bent on what else? world domination, via wiping humanity off the globe, from a few years after where the trilogy Dean Koontz's Frankenstein left it. Since the blowup (literally: Katrina was raging) in New Orleans in which Victor and his replicant New Race went down for good, Erika Five, the last and most independent version of Frankenstein's wife, has settled outside a Montana town, happily laying low. Then, shopping in town, she sees what could only be Victor. It is, and it isn't, as she later figures out. Meanwhile, a new bunch of replicants starts replacing their human prototypes and launches a mass termination of the rest of the populace. Fortunately, Deucalion, as Frankenstein's original creation is now known, is on to the plot. He brings the detective couple from New Orleans, who are now married, new parents, and PIs in San Francisco, into the action, which races to a climax that doesn't quite conclude in this book. Obviously enjoying himself, Koontz does his dance of grisly suspense, wry dialogue, sharp characterization, outlandish but charming (and well-integrated) comic relief, and cultural criticism more adroitly than almost ever before.--Olson, Ray Copyright 2010 Booklist

Library Journal Review

Koontz (Breathless; Odd Thomas) revisits his successful Frankenstein paperback series (The Prodigal Son, City of Night, and Dead or Alive) with this first hardcover edition of a new trilogy that picks up where the first series left off. The mysterious Deucalion, plagued by his gruesome appearance and carrying the burden of being of Victor Helios's first creation, has moved from New Orleans to Montana, alongside Victor and his fabricated wife, Erika 5. Also arriving in town are Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. The characters' renewed alliance tests not only their strength but also their humanity as a whole. Fans of the first trilogy will have no trouble following this story, yet Koontz is careful not to alienate new readers. -Verdict This successful mix of crime-inspired detective story and sf adventure is ideal for Koontz devotees as well as readers who enjoy genre crossovers. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 3/1/10; ebook ISBN 978-0-553-90767-4.]-Carolann Lee Curry, Mercer Univ. Medical Lib., Macon, GA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.