City of Night

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From the celebrated imaginaíion of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the dassic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of... DEAN KOQNTZ'S 4m: mpríií> CITY OF^IGHT They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created-and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios-once Frankenstein-can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time "monster" and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion's centuriesold history began as Victor's first and failed attempt to build the perfect humán- and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have imagined -an indestructible entity that... Tovább

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From the celebrated imaginaíion of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the dassic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of... DEAN KOQNTZ'S 4m: mpríií> CITY OF^IGHT They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created-and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios-once Frankenstein-can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time "monster" and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion's centuriesold history began as Victor's first and failed attempt to build the perfect humán- and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have imagined -an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us. "Of all bestselling authors, Koontz may be the most underestimated by the literary establishment. Book after book, year after year, this author dimbs to the top of the charts. Why? His readers know: because he is a master storyteller and a daring writer, and because, in his novels, he gives readers bright hope in a dark world." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Vissza