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    By the Light of the Moon: A Novel

    Written by Dean Koontz

    Narrated by Stephen Lang

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    Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as "America's most popular suspense novelist"(Rolling Stone) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique.

    Author of one #1 New York Times bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to today's readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more.

    Dylan O'Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He's on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious "doctor," injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctor's enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.

    Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shep's path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that they'll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jilly's classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air.

    Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom they're running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is that's coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place.

    What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work "by the light of the moon."

    By the Light of the Moon is a novel of heart-stopping suspense and transcendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us--a masterwork of the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublime storytelling triumphs throughout.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 17, 2006
    ISBN9780739341407
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    By the Light of the Moon: A Novel
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    Dean Koontz

    Dean Koontz is the author of more than a dozen New York Times No. 1 bestsellers. His books have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, and his work is published in 38 languages. He was born and raised in Pennsylvania and lives with his wife Gerda and their dog Anna in southern California.

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    • 3/5
      "By The Llight of The Moon" begins when Jilly, Dylan, and Shep's lives collide in a motel where a mad-scientist type character injects them with "stuff" and promises that "it does something different to everyone." There were a lot of characters to contend with but overall it was a very good book. There was a lot of humor in this one that is usually missing from Koontz's books. It also lacked a lot of the "creepy" factor that we readers have come to associate with Dean Koontz.
    • 1/5
      Idiotic. Seemed like a series of essays written by 8th graders challenged with using their most flowery, crazy writing style. I don't think I've ever read a Koontz book and based on this I never will again
    • 3/5
      "By The Llight of The Moon" begins when Jilly, Dylan, and Shep's lives collide in a motel where a mad-scientist type character injects them with "stuff" and promises that "it does something different to everyone." While the plot revealed itself in time, the story was alll about the three characters and the mad scientist. In the end, the revealed thesis was one of goodness and wonder--but getting there? not so much.
    • 5/5
      One of his best ones.
    • 5/5
      I completely and totally fell in love with Travis Maddox in Beautiful Disaster, and didn't think it could get any better than that until I was able to get into his mind and emotions in Walking Disaster. If you haven't read Beautiful Disaster, make sure you do that first before picking this one up, or you won't be able to appreciate it as much. Walking Disaster is Travis' side of the story, and no, it isn't like you're reading the same book again.....far from it. Some of the same events are referenced, but Jamie McGuire has written the book in such a way that it is truly like reading the story afresh and anew. I loved Beautiful Disaster and I loved getting to know Abby and experience the story from her point of view, but there was just something extra special about getting to see things from Travis' side. If you were one of those who were skeptical or didn't like Travis in Beautiful Disaster, then you might want consider giving Walking Disaster another chance, because you will get to connect with Travis and understand him and the things he did and does so much better, and you just can't help but love him, or at least I couldn't. Is Travis messed up? Yes he is. Does he have anger issues? Yes he does. Is he emotionally unstable? He can be. Does he maybe have a bit of a codependency problem regarding Abby going on? Absolutely. Travis started out as a precious and broken little boy who grew up the youngest in a house full of men, channeling his hurt, his anger, his abandonment issues, his loss, and his fear the best way he knew how, and it was far from perfect, but perfect isn't always that great anyway. Jamie McGuire couldn't have named this book any better, because that is exactly what Travis was, a Walking Disaster, but oh was he also a beautiful one. I loved Travis and Abby's story. I love the raw emotions, the undeniable chemistry between them, and the love that can't keep them apart. As a matter of fact, the prologue and epilogue of this book were probably the best parts and I would totally buy it for just those two things alone. Well done Jamie McGuire, well done.
    • 4/5
      In short: The Other Normals by Ned Vizzini is the most hilarious book I've read this year.Hands up if you've ever wished you could visit a fantasy world that you've always dreamed about seeing in real life. I know I would offer up my first born to be able to go to Hogwarts (kidding, of course...). So I was very envious of The Other Normals' unusual hero, Peregrine "Perry" Eckert, when he finds out that the alternate world he has been obsessing over from his Creatures & Caverns rulebook (a play on Dungeons & Dragons) is a real place that he can visit. What a fun concept! Seriously every nerd's dream.Having never read anything by Ned Vizzini before, I can't speak to whether all his books have a similar tone, but The Other Normals was BEYOND hilarious and the humour was absolutely the highlight of the book for me. It definitely takes the prize for funniest book I've read this year. That awkward moment when you're reading something funny in public and you burst out laughing causing everyone in the vicinity to stare at you strangely? Be prepared for a lot of that if you read The Other Normals in public. Everything about the world Ned Vizzini created was just silly and ridiculous and brilliant.Most of the humour is derived from protagonist Perry's interaction with other characters and his approach to various situations. He is without a doubt the most geeky and socially awkward character I have ever read about and Ned Vizzini utilizes these characteristics to maximum comic effect. In other circumstances, I might be annoyed by how ridiculously blundering Perry can be, but Ned Vizzini manages to endear him to the reader, creating a very sweet and charming character. It was nice seeing Perry finally take hold of his life and live it to the fullest.I will say that I thought the world building and concept was pretty sketchy and riddled with plot holes, but I realize that criticism is not entirely fair. The Other Normals isn't a book that is meant to be taken too seriously. I definitely recommend The Other Normals to anyone looking for just a fun, nonserious read to pass the time. A fast pace, tons of quick witted dialogue, and really short chapters will ensure that you speed through it in no time. I believe it is also a standalone. If ever I'm craving another genuinely funny book, I will be sure to turn to Ned Vizzini's novels first.
    • 4/5
      Harriet Marsh suffered the ultimate loss during WWI but now, November 1940, she’s settled into a satisfying, if somewhat lonely, existence. She’s filling in as fire-watcher on the roof of the historic Coventry cathedral. Across the way is young Jeremy Fisher who’s doing the same job on one of the cathedral’s other four roofs. These two will form a moving yet cheerless bond as the cathedral and the city suffer devastating air raids. It becomes apparent to them that this bombing is so much worse than any they’ve witnessed. There are dead bodies now. Everywhere. Soon they are on the ground, making their way through the debris and body laden streets, Jeremy desperately worried about his mother, Maeve, and whether or not she has survived the destruction and Harriet, realizing that she doesn’t want to let go of him, must stay with him.This complicated relationship provides the basis of the core of the story. It’s a heartbreaking narrative highlighted by Humphreys lovely, spare prose.”Outside the world blooms and fades, flaring bright and then subsiding. The ground trembles and the noise of the exploding bombs is deep and guttural, something felt as well as heard, something that resounds through Maeve’s body like a heartbeat. There is the cough of the ack-ack guns and the drone of the bombers. They’re flying so low over the city that when Maeve looks up she can actually see, in one bomber, the outline of the German pilot in the cockpit.” (Page 80)I never cease to be amazed by the courage of the people of England during WWII and Humphreys does an outstanding job of portraying this. I was impressed when reading the acknowledgements to find that Humphreys’ ”descriptions of the burning city are based on the accounts of the citizens of Coventry, as well as on eyewitness accounts of the bombing of Baghdad.”But make no mistake, this is a heartbreaking devastating read and not for the faint-hearted. Even so, I very much recommend it.
    • 5/5
      I really wish Scribd would make all of koontz audio books READABLE! I want to READ this book and i have to listen to the lame audio version. (which is not the same ) regardless, this is an amazing story and I highly recommend it!
    • 5/5
      Masterfully crafted imagery along with characters so fully developed and multidimensional that they come to life and caret you with them through their riveting adventures. A fresh take on the struggle between good and evil.
    • 5/5
      Amazing. Complex, thought provoking and exhilarating. Left me wanting more
    • 5/5
      One of my favourite Koontzbooks.. not scary, just interesting..
    • 2/5
      I had read this novel when it first came out and thought it was pretty good. Not the best Koontz novel, but still pretty good.
      Now I’m wondering about this. This novel now seems rather different for me, maybe because I’ve grown and matured as a person (I’d like to think).

      The overly descriptive and loquacious (
    • 4/5
      good fast moving story, seems like it should be the start of a series
    • 5/5
      "By The Light Of The Moon" is one of Dean Koontz's best, and is a example of what he can deliver when he is on top of his game. Mr. Koontz provides the reader with his usual edge-of-your seat suspense. But in this novel, he takes you on a mysterious scientific adventure, and a little less of a supernatural one. You will meet and come to know each character well, and will be right there with them on this adventure. Stephen Lang has become one of my favorite narrators, and was a great choice for this novel. This is a great novel if you want to experience Dean Koontz at his best.
    • 3/5
      Good page-turner. I hadn't read a Koontz book in years and it lived up to what I expected, which was something escapist and a little bit chilling. Don't expect a hard-core fright fest here, just a mystery with a supernatural edge. Don't think too hard about the plot or you'll probably snag a loose end and unravel it! Oh, speaking of metaphors (ahem), Koontz does tend to employ some really terrible extended metaphors in his writing -- but that's ok, we don't read Dean Koontz to experience literary finesse!
    • 3/5


      I liked the book although I don't think it's Koontz' best book. It's about a guy, Dylan, and his autistic brother, Shep, who are on a road trip. An older man breaks into their hotel room and injects them with "stuff". Then they meet Jilly who has also been injected with "stuff". The next day takes them on the ride of their lives, including their revenge on the man who injected them.

      I listened to this as an unabridged audiobook. It kept my rides interesting and I would recommend it.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this book form start to almost the finish. I won't spoil the ending of the story, but feel that it didn't need the last few paragraphs. I loved the concept of the story and found it very involving. It could have been a classic, but for the small issue of the last little bit. I would urge everybody to read it if your a fan of this type of writing. The dialogue between the main main characters and the characterisation is brilliantly done and the nature of the autistic brother is very well portrayed. A superb read that keeps you turning the pages, but you'll have to forgive the author for the ending, I suppose.
    • 3/5
      By The Light of The Moon starts strong. The first 100 pages are Koontz firing on all cylinders. We’ve got this creepy genius doctor injecting Dylan O’Conner with a strange substance that he calls “stuff.” Koontz does a great job reminding us readers that this stuff could be killing Dylan or it could be doing amazing things. Dylan’s 20 year old autistic brother Shepard is a faithful, sympathetic sidekick. Shep’s heartbreaking condition makes him talk like a thesaurus rambling different definitions of words and constantly repeating phrases, particularly to do with the title of the novel. The relationship between Shep and his brother is strong, poignant and pokes readers square in the chest. A few times Koontz had me hoping by the end of the book maybe, just maybe, there might be some miraculous cure for Shep’s condition. I wanted a cure for Shep’s autism. Bad. And then there is the traveling comedian, Jilly. She’s tough and doesn’t get along with Dylan at first. Jilly was also kidnapped by the creepy genius doctor for long enough to inject with the same mysterious stuff. Dylan, Jilly and Shep are on the run from bad people who want to kill them because of what they might do on the stuff. Don’t get on me for all the italics, I’m borrowing from Koontz. If/once you read the book you’ll be stuck doing that every time you type the word too. So that’s the first 100 pages of By The Light of the Moon and it’s good. The setup sucked me in. I was hooked, compelled to see what this trio would do and where they would go on their adventure. Enough to work through the next 200 pages which, unfortunately, don’t have the equal swift pacing and energy of the beginning. Sure, there’s a ton of character expansion and conflict between the trio and readers aren’t sure whether or not to like Jilly. And let’s not forget poor Shep. What about Shep? I asked myself one too many times in the middle of the story what if Shep wasn’t in By The Light of The Moon? Yes, he has these cryptic repeating messages which add the eerie factor but was he necessary to the overall story? What if Koontz had left Shep on the cutting room floor of his first draft editing? Would that much of the story have been lost or changed? I won’t spoil the ending but will admit that Koontz proves why he’s a master storyteller in the final 100 pages. He puts the car back in gear and goes full throttle and by the ending readers are left wanting a sequel. You can see on the Koontz website readers have been asking him as repeatedly as Shep would ask: will there be a sequel? This is how the great authors like Koontz roll. I’ve been reading Dean Koontz for over 20 years and I’ve seen him change as a writer. His strongest horror writing was in the eighties (The Watchers, Phantoms, Whispers, Strangers era), when he first made it big on the scene. Back then Koontz was tenacious, hungry, willing-to-chew-up-the-reader writer smashing his keyboard like guitarist at the end of the concert. That was Dean R. Koontz, remember him? It isn’t quite the same author of Dean Koontz books today. Maybe the ‘R’ that was dropped stood for ‘R’aw? Koontz was never as unhinged as some of the other popular horror writers (Barker, McCammon, King) but his stories were scarier than they are today. To summarize: By The Light of The Moon. would have been a better read for me at about half the words. Maybe the sequel that I’m sure Koontz will write someday and sell a ton of copies (and yes, I’ll probably buy one too), will be a better replacement for the middle section of this book.
    • 5/5
      With the exception of 'One Door Away From Heaven' this Koontz novel is the best he's created. I was taken by the uniqueness of not only the plot, but the characters and incredible scenes. Wouldn't we all love the ability to move through time and space, making the kind of incredible decisions that would try even the stoutest soul.The final confrontation with the bad guy, utterly ruthless and yet with a compelling gift, was a totally unexpected thrill, despite the fact that we all know it had to happen.If I could give more than 5 stars, I would.
    • 5/5
      With the exception of 'One Door Away From Heaven' this Koontz novel is the best he's created. I was taken by the uniqueness of not only the plot, but the characters and incredible scenes. Wouldn't we all love the ability to move through time and space, making the kind of incredible decisions that would try even the stoutest soul.The final confrontation with the bad guy, utterly ruthless and yet with a compelling gift, was a totally unexpected thrill, despite the fact that we all know it had to happen.If I could give more than 5 stars, I would.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. A great mix of suspense, action and humor.
    • 3/5
      As always, I loved Dean Koontz's story, but his writing in this book was very different than most of the ones Ive read by him. There was WAY too much discription and I could almost read the whole book by skimming for the 1 sentence in each paragraph that was important to the story. Some descrition is good, but taking a whole paragraph to describe a tree and the majority of the words being 7 letters or more is a bit overboard. Especially when the next paragraph is more of the same describing the sky over the tree and so on and so forth.
    • 5/5
      Dylan O'Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He's on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious "doctor," injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee—before the doctor's enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery—and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shep's path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that they'll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jilly's classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air.Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom they're running from—or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is that's coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes—just minutes before the crimes take place.What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work "by the light of the moon."BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON is a novel of heart-stopping suspense and transcendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us—a masterwork of the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublime storytelling triumphs throughout.
    • 3/5
      Dylan, Jilly, and Shepard are attacked and injected with some "stuff". What is this injection going to do and who are the people trying to kill them now? Once again a well written and fast paced novel by Dean Koontz. I liked the characters and overall pace and plot. But the story never seemed to get to that "point" of great book, just kinda maintained at good through the whole story.
    • 4/5
      Powerful title and typical tripped-out Koontz material. First paragraph, and you find out that this guy named Dylan gets mugged brought together by chance and circumstance and injected with an evil substance of God knows what by a mad scientist type of man. Research has to be done to find out what they've been injected with -- also what's at store in their future. Only to learn that they have developed some type of supernatural-like abilities which will come in handy later on. However, Dean Koontz is a master of suspense and story-telling... feeling been far better if the author had cut out fluff-- and stuck to the compelling story. The end was a disappointment.
    • 4/5
      My first Koontz book. I enjoyed the characters and the fast pacing. A little disappointed by the ending though.
    • 3/5
      illy, Dylan, and Shep have been injected with nonorobots by a Dr. Powell. They have developed exta powers and can not see into the future and visit the past. Shep is autistic and is the first to be able to "fold himself and others to other locations and into the past. Mr. Lantern in the end has been given powers, too. This leads them to be freek like and in the end they agree to use there powers for the good of mankind.
    • 3/5
      On the road, on a hot Arizona night, Dylan O'Connor is overpowered by a stranger who injects him with an unknow substance. All he's told is that he's the «carrier» not of a disease but of something wondrous that will transform his life in remarkabler ways - if it doesn't kill him in the next 24 hours. Now Dylan, his autistic brother, Shep, and another «carrier» a young woman, are swept into a desperate search for the shattering truth of what they are and what they might become. But first, they must elude those sent to destroy them. their only chance to survive is to discover the meaning of the message that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat about a man who does his work... by the light of the moon.
    • 4/5
      In the hands of a lesser author, this novel's unlikely heroes (Rainmanesque brothers with DC Comics-style abilities earned through childhood tragedy) might come across as silly. But in the hands of the metaphor-spinning Dean Koontz, arguably the most talented suspense writer working today, these unlikely elements congeal into a wondrous thriller that explores the ageless themes Koontz is so fond of: good and evil, the natural and the supernatural, the deep scars of a fractured family life, and the wonders and perils posed by futuristic technology (in this case nanotech). While this book would warrant five stars from any other author, I gave it four because the first half of the novel lacked some of the pulse-racing plot points of his best books (like "Odd Thomas") and because the senseless act of violence that his heroes must thwart lacked a real connection to the rest of the story. Even an A-minus effort from Koontz is a worthwhile read, however, and we can only hope that this author continues his work by the light of the moon, spinning his brilliant tales.-Kevin Joseph, author of "The Champion Maker"