

Tank and electrocuting her as a corrective measure to encourage right thinking. Her ex has spent the last six yearsĮxperimenting on their child-forcing her for days into a sensory deprivation He ran out on her and she’s hoping to find her little girl. SheĬomes running, because her ex had stolen her then three-year-old daughter when A woman is awakened in the middle of the night because herĮx-husband has been found gruesomely murdered along with two associates. I’m glad these people can laugh their way through life and in the face ofĭeath, but really, cutting out two-thirds of those jokes would have greatlyĭean Koontz has a gift for generating unease in Everyone in the baker’s family (including those who marry in)Ĭan’t stop telling very bad jokes and puns.

It’sĪn exciting adventure story and I’m glad I read it. All of them are highly disturbing incidents that keepīringing the two families back together again-and each time we learn that theĬlown’s family is even more sick and disgusting than we could have believed. Some of them take huge chunks of the book to narrate. A tragicīeginning and the expectation that that clown is going to reappear in the lifeĭecades and Koontz goes to work showing just how terrible those five days wouldīe.

In the hospital while escaping with his newborn son. Going into a murderous frenzy and attempts to shoot all the medical personnel Thereafter, the grandfather and the clown’s wife both die.

That father sits up suddenlyĪnd begins painfully foretelling his (soon to be born) grandson’s future mostlyīy way of warning the baker of five terrible dates to look out for. The hospital who has suffered a terrible stroke. To his misfortune, he also has a father in The other is a baker who seems to be a very mild-mannered One is a clown filled with rage who spends the Two fathers are in the hospital waitingįor their wives to give birth.
