You can tell that he wrote the book on his own. Some plot elements seemed wasted such as the two cops on the hunt for monsters, or pointless such as the ugly dwarf freak and the lovely wife. Koontz chose to delay the release for several years after Hurricane Katrina as he did not wish to release any further monsters or destruction on New Orleans. Dead and Alive is the third book in Dean Koontzs Frankenstein series, this time written by Koontz alone. The Frankenstein legend needs updating and this book had many elements that alone would have made a wonderful story. The long-awaited book was released on July 28, 2009. A resistance movement also builds from within Helios' power structure, as many of his vat-made men and women recognize that to fight back against Helios would bring a desired end to tedium, slavery, insanity, self-destructive abuse behaviors or life itself. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison are Deucalion's all-too-human partners trying to end the reign of terror of Helios's killers. The megalomaniacal Victor Helios has, by design and accident, unleashed many of his engineered killers on modern-day New Orleans. Originally intended to be co-authored by Ed Gorman and Dean Koontz, Koontz opted to write this entry alone.ĭeucalion, the legendary monster, is a heroic figure dedicated to battling the evil that gave him life. Dead and Alive is the third novel in the first trilogy of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series.
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