The Key to Midnight: A Thriller

by Dean Koontz

Book Overview

Joanna Rand left the U.S. ten years ago to sing in a Japanese nightclub. Ever since, she's been haunted by the same horrifying nightmare. Each time she awakens, she feels violated, used, and scared.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425235912
• ISBN13: 9780425235911
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Good Read.

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A different type of Koontz novel...

Joanna Rand left America ten years ago, and is now the owner of a nightclub in Kyoto, Japan. The one thing that she could not leave behind however, is a terrifying nightmare that she has on a nightly basis involving a man with steel fingers. When Joanna wakes up, she feels physically violated and terrified beyond comprehension. A private detective named Alex Hunter is vacationing in Kyoto and becomes instantly captivated with Joanna. However, he also knew that he had seen Joanna before in news photographs of a senator's daughter who had dissapeared 10 years ago. Alex becomes determined to help awaken Joanna to the fact that she is not who she thinks she is, and that her life, her memories, and her mind had been created for her.The Key to Midnight is definately a different type of Koontz novel. He usually specializes in horror and suspense. That is why I was very unsure about reading this book. However, as soon as I began, I knew that it would turn out to be one of the best Koontz books that I ever read. The book is an extremely well written and action packed chase novel. The story is paced extremely well because you learn about Joanna's past and why her life was messed with, slowly over the course of the story. You are also kept on the edge of your seat, because there are many different people who do not want Joanna to discover the truth. This book really emphasizes the phrase "trust no one" because anybody could be in on it. Koontz also does a wonderful job of illustrating the different countries that the story takes place in.Overall, The Key to Midnight is one of Koontz's best books. It is an action packed chase novel filled with paranoia, conspiracies, and many great characters.

Great Mystery!

This is one of Koontz's better mysteries. I like all of his books, but not all of them leave you on the edge of your seat trying to figure out a secret. The best part- it's about the main character in this book!Can you imagine how scary it would be to question & doubt who you are? That's the one thing we all think we at least know, if you don't know that- who can you trust?This is one of my favorite books of his. Go out & get it!

Key TO Midnight

I Would have never began reading if I had not read this book.

Dean Koontz At His Best

Mr. Koontz originally wrote this book under the pseudonym of Leigh Nichols (I didn't even know he had one). As Mr. Koontz explains at the end of the book, he spent quite a lot of time editing this book prior to re-releasing it under his name.This book was definitely Koontz at his best. Though not your typical Dean Koontz plot, he did a wonderful job crossing in the the Spy Novel Genre. I read this book in one day on the beach. I found it to be wonderfully written, and I really liked the characters. I was certainly surprised to find out who was and wan not one of the bad guys. Boy did it fool me. Some of the characters I expected to be corrupt wern't and some that I expected not to be were.The plot unfolds in Japan, and ends in Switzerland. Mr. Koontz does a great job of describing these locations without getting lengthy and boring yet making them colorful.If you like Dean Koontz, don't leave this book off of your must read list.I have read many of Mr. Koontz's novels and I rank this as one of his best.

Page-turning

This is my first Dean Koontz book and it was the most fascinating book I have enver read, I wasn't able to tell the horror part, it didn't really scare me at all, it's just of spine-tingling terror. That german doctor guy creeped me out though. The end was totally unexpected, I loved this book and I am now a Dean Koontz fan for life. If anybody likes brainwashing, foreign deciet, lies, mistaken identity. That's this book "The Key To Midnight. All of those things rolled up into one. One of the most engaging novels of all time. I love this book. I finished this book in one day, it was impossible for me to try to put it down. My parents got mad at me because I stayed up so late reading the book. I would tell myslef "just one more chapter" and then 50 or 100 pages later I would realize how much I really read.