Relentless (2009) (edit title/settings)

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Characters edit see section history

• Milo: son of Cubby and Penny
• Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich: Best selling author and the main character of this book.
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• Blick
• Boden
• Penny Greenwich
• Penny Boom: Best selling children's author, wife of Cubby Greenwich.
• Milo Greenwich: Six year old boy genius, son of Cubby and Penny.
• Mann
• Frau
• Fenster
• Grimbald: The author's agent.
• Sohn
• Zimmer
• Lage
• Weise
• Dann
• Wasser
• Bett
• Stirn
• Grund
• Tisch
• Tod
• Stelle
• Herz
• Cubby: The nickname for the author.
• Shearmann Waxx: A literary critic who wields his reviews to change the fate of authors he likes or dislikes.
• Kammer
• Schatz
• Bibliothek
• Steuer
• Grimbald Boom: Penny's father, a demolitions expert.
• Spiegel
• Clotilda
• Ende
• Recht
• Haus
• Knie
• Familie
• Traum
• Egal
• Garten
• Himmel
• Mutter
• Clotilda Boom: Penny's mother.
• Vivian "Vi" Norbert: Milo's babysitter and friend to the Greenwich family.
• Lassie
• John Clitherow
• Shearman Waxx
• Henry
• Cullen
• Brock
• Ewen
• Walbert
• Marty
• Zazu
• Jack
• Vivian Norby
• Cora
• Tony
• Olivia
• Edith
• Thomas Landulf
• Josh
• Davena
• Tom Landulf
• Hummer
• Russell Bertrand
• Kenton
• Margie
• Margaret

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• “"Don't you ever try to teleport yourself anywhere," Penny said adamently, "Don't you ever."”

• “Trifles make the sum of life”

  Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

• “The issue is clear. It is between light and darkness, and everyone must choose his side.”

  G.K. Chesterton

• “All men are tragic.... All men are comic.... Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat.”

  G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens

• “I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.”

• “As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.”

• “Dear, the man can't be eviscerated because he has no viscera. He's a walking colon. If you cut him open, you only end up covered in crap.”

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• Evil itself may be relentless, I will grant you that, but love is relentless, too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is a relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts—and can defeat—even the most relentless force of all, which is time.

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• Among other things, my past had taught me that the very fact of my existence is a cause for amazement and wonder, that we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

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• Fire, ice, asteroids, and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.

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• Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting. Complexity implies meaning. We are afraid of meaning.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Kofferraum
• New York
• Smokeville
• Maserati
• Brand
• Roxie
• Paris
• Florida

First Sentence edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Dean Koontz (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3561.O55
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Authors, A-Z › ( K ) › Koontz, Dean
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Dean Koont: Author's website

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