Product Description

Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. One evening, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car, If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours. It seems like a sick joke, to him and his friend on the police force. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered.

Description in Spanish: Billy, un camarero de vida tranquila, encuentra en el parabrisas de su coche una nota en la que alguien le advierte que, si avisa a la policía, una joven maestra morirá, y si no lo hace, la víctima será una anciana. Aconsejado por un amigo policía, Billy ignora el anónimo, pero, en menos de 24 horas, una profesora es hallada muerta... Enseguida encuentra una nueva nota y Billy se ve inmerso en una veloz pesadilla con plazos cada vez más cortos y asesinatos cada vez más despiadados...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1033148 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-30
• Released on: 2007-04-01
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

About the Author
Dean Koontz (Pennsylvania, 1945), licenciado en Literatura Inglesa por la Universidad de Shippensburg, lleva escribiendo desde su adolescencia. Considerado uno de los mejores autores de suspense del mundo, sus libros han sido traducidos a treinta y ocho idiomas y de ellos se venden diecisiete millones de ejemplares al año. Prueba de su éxito es que diez de sus novelas han alcanzado el número uno en la lista de best sellers del New York Times.

Customer Reviews

A PAGE-TURNER...
Once I started this book, the plot grabbed me right from the beginning and would not let go. Even though it is a plot driven book, the main character is well developed, even though others, perhaps, are not. It makes no difference, however, as it is the intricate, tightly constructed plot that will grab the reader. This is quintessential Koontz at his best, producing a riveting page-turner, once again.

Billy Wiles is a formerly promising writer turned barkeep. He has experienced a goodly amount of tragedy in his life. Orphaned at fourteen, he is haunted by the unusual circumstances surrounding the death of his parents. He is also devoted to his fiancee, Barbara, who lies in a comatose state in a nursing home, the victim of the fickle finger of fate. She has been given little hope of recovery. While Billy appears to be an easygoing, hardworking regular Joe, he goes through life with despair etched in the very way that he lives.

One night, however, a pivotal event occurs that will forever change Billy's life. A note is left under the windshield wipers of his car. The note gives him a most unusual ultimatum. It tells him that if he does not take the note to the police, securing their involvement, "a lovely blonde schoolteacher from the Napa Valley" will be murdered. The note also conversely tells Billy that if he does take the note to the police, "an elderly woman active in charity work" will, instead, be murdered. These are the two choices for which Billy has been given six hours to decide.

What Billy chooses to do and what follows are the stuff of which nightmares are made. Suddenly, Billy's formerly quiet, prosaic life takes on a new dimension, one in which reality is suspended, as the first note is followed by a series of them. Each note ups the ante, leaving Billy with having to make choices no human being should have to make. The ingenious plot takes the reader on a thrill ride of terror and suspense.

This was a book that I could not put down, so intriguing, original, and mesmerizing was the plot. Fans of the author, as well as those of Stephen King, should find much to like about this brilliantly plotted, fast-paced book, which puts a new spin on the age old struggle between good and evil. Written by a master storyteller at the top of his game, the book should keep the enthralled reader turning the pages, until the very last one has been turned. This is, without a doubt, one of the author's best books.

Hay suspenso pero no hay "VELOCIDAD"
Este es el primer libro que leo de este famoso autor. Hubo momentos en que estuve a punto de ponerlo a un lado y no terminar de leerlo. Si uno lee un libro que se supone que sea de suspenso, se supone que te mantenga en suspenso. Quizas cree demasiadas expectativas hacia el autor por ser tan famoso, pero considero que el libro es bueno pero no excelente.

Me gusto la trama, en realidad la situacion principal en la que se basan los sucesos, esta bien definida. Sin embargo carece de intensidad. Es claro que el autor quiere que te pongas en los zapatos del protagonista, y que sufras lo que la persona sufre. Te mantiene con la interrogante de quien es el responsable de los hechos, pero se repite mucho el mismo tipo de situaciones.

Si quieres suspenso, lo vas a encontrar,pero considero que no se llega al punto de querer comerte las uñas o de quedarte despierto hasta las 3:00 de la mañana para continuar leyendo.

Hay suspenso pero no hay intensidad, "NO HAY VELOCIDAD".