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One rainy afternoon, a stranger breaks into author Martin Stillwater's house, accusing Martin of stealing his wife, his children-and his life. Claiming to be the real Martin Stillwater, the intruder threatens to take what is rightfully his. The police think he's a figment of Martin's... read more
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Characters edit
- Martin Stillwater: The protagonist. A successful novelist who enjoys the quiet life with his family - a wife and two daughters.
- Paige Stillwater: Marty's loving wife, a councillor with an unhappy family past.
- "Alfie": The antagonist. 'The Other' prefect lookalike of Marty Stillwater, a killer who works for a sinister mysterious society known as The Network.
- Emily Stillwater: Marty's youngest daughter.likes tidiness and neatness, is quiet and introverted.
- Cyrus Lowbock: Add a description of this character.
- Drew Oslett: Alfie's handler for the Network, partner to Clocker, whom he often is irritated with and despises. Oslett hates society in general and prefers crowded cities to suburbia or small towns. Is related to someone high up in the Network hierarchy.
- Karl Clocker: Partner to Oslett, a big man who likes to read Star Trek and answer in criptic riddles. One of Alfie's handlers, on his tail
- Mrs. Sanchez: A neighbour to the Stillwaters
- Charlotte Stillwater: Marty and Paige's eldest daughter, who loves colours, brightness, is extroverted and owns a menagerie of odd pets, including a snake and gerbil.
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“Life wasn’t like fiction…Crazy things just happened, without the logic of fiction, then life went on as usual.”
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Sometimes it seems the world’s a madhouse. Storytelling condenses life, gives it order. Stories have beginnings, middles, ends. And when a story’s over, it meant something, by God, maybe not something complex, maybe what it had to say was simple, even naive, but there was meaning. And that gives us hope, it’s a medicine.”
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To the ancient Greeks, Fate was personified in the form of three sisters: Clotho, who spun the thread of life; Lachesis, who measured the length of the thread; and Atropos, smallest of the three but the most powerful, who snipped the thread at her whim.
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bells echoes over the hills and the dells. And look—reindeer high up in the sky! Some silly goose has taught them to fly. The driver giggles quite like a loon— madman, goofball, a thug,
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First Sentence edit
"I need . . ." Leaning back in his comfortable leather office chair, rocking gently, holding a compact cassette recorder in his right hand and dictating a letter to his editor in New York, Martin Stillwater suddenly realized he was repeating the same two words in a dreamy whisper.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Dean Koontz (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Putnam/Berkley
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0399138749
Page Count: 415
Publisher: Putnam/Berkley
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0399138749
Page Count: 415
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- Dewey: 818'.54
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- Dean Koontz: Author's website
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