The Good Guy - The Library of the Uncommons

456 pages

Published March 1, 2011 by Harper.

ISBN:: 978-0-00-736828-0

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes this pulse-pounding thriller that starts with a terrifying decision we all might face one day: Help—or run. Timothy Carrier is an ordinary guy. He enjoys a beer after work at his friend’s tavern, the eccentric customers and amusing conversations. But tonight is no ordinary night. The jittery man sitting beside him has mistaken Tim for someone else—and passes him an envelope stuffed with cash and the photo of a pretty woman. “Ten thousand now. You get the rest when she’s gone.”

Tim Carrier always thought he knew the difference between right and wrong, good and evil. But tonight everything he thought he knew—even about himself—will be challenged. For Tim Carrier is at the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions, the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer as relentless as evil incarnate. But …

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes this pulse-pounding thriller that starts with a terrifying decision we all might face one day: Help—or run. Timothy Carrier is an ordinary guy. He enjoys a beer after work at his friend’s tavern, the eccentric customers and amusing conversations. But tonight is no ordinary night. The jittery man sitting beside him has mistaken Tim for someone else—and passes him an envelope stuffed with cash and the photo of a pretty woman. “Ten thousand now. You get the rest when she’s gone.”

Tim Carrier always thought he knew the difference between right and wrong, good and evil. But tonight everything he thought he knew—even about himself—will be challenged. For Tim Carrier is at the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions, the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer as relentless as evil incarnate. But first he must discover resources within himself of which he never dreamed, capacities that will transform his idea of who he is and what it takes to be

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2.5⭐️

I have a love hate relationship with Koontz's books. I read the first a decade ago and loved the ones I read. Over the years I have read a few of his newer books and those from his back catalogue and they have been mostly miss instead of hit.

This was a miss for me. Especially this go round. This was worse than insta love. I mean the MC's met and within a few hours they seem to be planning their whole future with the other. And though Koontz comes off preachy and his prose overly flowery in most books, it seemed overdone in this case. And the POV from the antagonist (which we get in all Koontz books) felt unnecessary and in this particular case added nothing to the story. In The Face and From the Corner Of his Eye, his other books, the antagonist is a bit …

2.5⭐️

I have a love hate relationship with Koontz's books. I read the first a decade ago and loved the ones I read. Over the years I have read a few of his newer books and those from his back catalogue and they have been mostly miss instead of hit.

This was a miss for me. Especially this go round. This was worse than insta love. I mean the MC's met and within a few hours they seem to be planning their whole future with the other. And though Koontz comes off preachy and his prose overly flowery in most books, it seemed overdone in this case. And the POV from the antagonist (which we get in all Koontz books) felt unnecessary and in this particular case added nothing to the story. In The Face and From the Corner Of his Eye, his other books, the antagonist is a bit over the top villainy too but they at least scared me a little. Here I just skipped those parts. And in the case of his other books like Life Expectancy and even Tick Tock (where the MC's have a similar bonding over the course of a night) I came to know and like the MC's unlike here where we didn't learn anything about either Tim or Linda till the last 15% of the book.

I will probably reread other books of his now that I am in the mood. And hopefully decade older me will still like the books instead of hating them.

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