Relentless
A Novel
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4.4 • 52 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Literary critic Shearman Waxx can kill a good book with just a few acidly worded bon mots. And as one unlucky author is about to discover, that’s not all he’s prepared to kill. . . .
From #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz comes a mesmerizing thriller about the battle of wills that ensues when a successful author and likable family man confronts a reclusive sociopath who wields an all-too-deadly poison pen. Respect Shearman Waxx’s opinion and you might escape with your career intact. Cross him and he’ll destroy you, your family, and everything you hold dear. For the title “America’s most feared critic” isn’t one Waxx takes lightly. He takes it literally. And now Cubby Greenwich, his wife, Penny, their brilliant six-year-old Milo, and their uniquely talented non-collie, Lassie, are all about to learn the true meaning of “culture war.”
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A bad book review propels this farcical thriller from bestseller Koontz (Your Heart Belongs to Me). Bestselling author Cullen Cubby Greenwich is mortified when Shearman Waxx, the nation's premier literary critic, savages his work. Cubby manages to find the syphilitic swine at Roxie's Bistro in Newport Beach, Calif., where the author's six-year-old prodigy son nearly pees by accident on Waxx in the restaurant's men's room. In retaliation, Waxx threatens Cubby with doom and gets things started nicely by blowing up his house. With almost superhuman ease, the book critic keeps track of Cubby and his family as they flee for their lives. While some may take this as satire, the over-the-top villain's underdeveloped motivation and a jokey narrative tone that jars when juxtaposed with terrifying scenes of violence will leave others scratching their heads. By the time Koontz introduces a science fiction element, a lot of readers may have already checked out.
Customer Reviews
One of my favorites.
Interesting and fun.
Page turner
What a fantastic read!! The story was compelling and the characters were well developed. It was a real page turner!!
Dean Koontz is a relentlessly entertaining storyteller!
It’s true; I’ve found this to be true of nearly every book I’ve ever read by Dean Koontz! There are only a few books I didn’t wind up keeping by Dean Koontz, not because I didn’t like them, but because they weren’t as good as most of the others I’ve read by him. Thankfully, Relentless does NOT fall into that category! I found this book awesome from beginning to end. Koontz gets the suspense rolling very early in the book and from there, it doesn’t let up. If anything, it does just the opposite: The suspense and truly scary action just escalates and escalates until it snowballs into a terrifying, nonstop nightmare that plows readers headlong into a violent, shocking climactic confrontation! This book gives Koontz fans everything they love in his exciting books, including laugh-out-loud humor. READ AND ENJOY!!!