Perhaps in another universe, they all can be together once again. Now the possibilities for them are endless, but their main goal is always to reconnect their family as Jeffy's wife and Amity's mother, Michelle, walked out on them seven years earlier. Jeffy and Amity still have no idea what that means, but based on Jeffy's many discussions with Ed and their meeting with Falkirk, they assume that they are holding something that gives them entry into other versions of their Earth. Almost as quickly as it starts, the glimmer fades and their home is back to normal again.Īs they examine the device, they now see three buttons on it: HOME, SELECT, RETURN. Their entire house seems to shine as two buttons stand out. "The key to everything” resembles a TV remote, and touching it yields a silvery glimmer. Jeffy realizes that what Ed has given him may be extremely valuable, and he and Amity are curious to see what it looks like. He has a slew of questions about a man named Ed Harkenbach, which Jeffy handles by saying that he may have seen him in passing. Not long after that exchange, Jeffy and Amity receive a knock on their door from John Falkirk of the National Security Agency. "This is a genre-busting work that happily will appeal to readers who enjoy thrillers, horror, sci-fi or just a flat-out well-told story with a breakneck pace that never lets up." At the end of their conversation, he hands Jeffy a box with something he refers to as "the key to everything.” Ed then makes Jeffy swear that he will never touch it or do anything with it. Ed seems disturbed and claims that he is being hunted. Spooky’s name is Ed, and Jeffy always enjoys talking to him. One day while walking home, Jeffy leaves Amity to chat with the homeless man she refers to as “Mr. It's an ironic discussion as we understand that this is a novel about a form of time travel involving multiple realities. Part of the planet is in the present, part in the past and part in the future. This makes for quite the suspenseful story and allows Koontz to do whatever he likes, no matter how outlandish.Įarly in the book, Jeffy Coltrane is talking with his 11-year-old daughter, Amity, about how they live on a kind of time machine. ELSEWHERE is a clear shout-out to those days, and it thrilled me as I eagerly turned each page.Ī subject like parallel universes would be a plot element of older Koontz tales, and it is firmly evident here as the action takes place over multiple versions of Earth. If you've been reading his work since the early 1970s, as I have, you will recognize that he made his name initially with outstanding science fiction and suspense/horror. I am referring to the fact that his latest effort is a technothriller, which for me fondly recalls Koontz in his early days. Dean Koontz is back - not that he ever left.
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