Velocity

Velocity
Dean Koontz

The international bestseller Dean Koontz delivers a masterclass of storytelling suspense in this thriller. What would you do if a serial killer forced you to choose who he murders next?On the windscreen of his SUV, Billy finds the first note.It gives him a choice. If he takes the note to the police, an elderly woman will be killed. If he doesn’t approach the police, a schoolteacher will die. He thinks it’s a hoax. The schoolteacher is killed. Further notes taunt Billy’s conscience, forcing him to decide who lives and who dies. He must think the unthinkable, fast, in an accelerating nightmare.More communications from the killer follow with ever tighter deadlines. Each is more personal, more confrontational than the last until he is isolated, with no one to rely on but himself. Finally, he must risk everything to save the helpless, clueless victims…

Velocity

Dean Koontz

This book is dedicated to Donna and Steve Dunio, Vito and Lynn Cerra, Ross and Rosemary Cerra. I’ll never figure out why Gerda said yes to me. But now your family has a crazy wing.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

—ERNEST HEMINGWAY,

The Old Man and the Sea

And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads,And no man knows or cares who is his neighbourUnless his neighbour makes too much disturbance,But all dash to and fro in motor cars,Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

—T. S. ELIOT,

Choruses from “The Rock”

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PART ONE The Choice is Yours (#ua8f5d0cf-27bd-594e-be61-ab9f054e6c84)

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