BOOK REPORT......

Velocity - Dean Koontz

Product Description(Amazon.com)
If you don’t take this note to the police . . . I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. . . . If you do . . . I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours.

The typewritten note under his windshield seems like just a sick joke. But in less than twenty-four hours, Billy Wiles, an ordinary, hardworking guy, is about to see his life take on the speed of a nightmare. Because a young blond schoolteacher is murdered—and now Billy has another note. And another deadline. This time he knows it’s no joke. He’s racing a killer faster than evil itself. And Billy must accept his terrifying challenge: The choice is yours. 
Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages 
Publisher: Bantam; Reprint edition (June 26, 2012) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 0345533461 
ISBN-13: 978-0345533463

MY THOUGHTS: I was cleaning out a crate the other day and found this book at the bottom.  I was between books at that moment, so started reading it.  As with all the Dean Koontz books I've read, it caught me from the first page.  The one thing about Dean Koontz books with me, is I can't read them after dark.  His writing is way to realistic and scares the heck out of me.  I start imagining someone is in the house watching me or coming to get me.  So I only read them during the day.  That is how powerful Dean Koontz's writing is to me.  This book is no exception.  Billy is a bartender at a local bar.  His whole life right now revolves around his fiance, Barbara, she is in a comma from eating something that was contaminated.   Then one day a note is stuck under his wind shield wiper on his truck.  He thinks it's a joke, but he does show it to his friend Lanny, who happens to be a policeman.  But Lanny doesn't take the note as a policeman, he takes it as a friend to Billy.  Sure enough a blond schoolteacher is found murdered the next day.  Billy thinks this is all a big joke, he's wrong.  Someone is deadly serious and Billy has to find out who it is.  This a really involved book, with lots of characters and lots of information.  I didn't see the ending coming and I didn't know who the killer was, which is good for me.  I love a book that keeps me intrigued and surprises me at the end.