Benny is so nice they feel compelled to destroy him, but he has a friend who should scare the hell out of them in this breathtaking new kind of thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.
Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He’s not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time.
How strange—though it’s a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what’s inside the crate. He’s a seven-foot-tall self-described “bad weather friend” named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. Spike will take care of it. He’ll find Benny’s enemies. He’ll deal with them. This might be satisfying if Spike wasn’t such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation.
In the company of Spike and a fascinated young waitress-cum-PI-in-training named Harper, Benny plunges into a perilous high-speed adventure, the likes of which never would have crossed the mind of a decent guy like him.
From the Publisher
Before I became his editor, I might have described Dean Koontz’s novels as terrifying. Thirteen-year-old me was scared and riveted by the sometimes-monstrous characters racing through the oft-action-packed pages. But Dean Koontz is also a very funny, thoughtful man.
With that in mind, I shouldn’t have been surprised that The Bad Weather Friend was more than a thrilling ride with some Koontzian villains and horrifying scenes so affecting you may not be able to turn out the lights. (I’ll never look at bugs in quite the same way.)
It’s also a funny, touching, and poignant novel (disguised as a buddy novel) about being a nice person with good intentions—something Dean and the very large and imposing character in his book (named Spike, of course) think deserves to be preserved and protected. “We are living in such dark and dangerous times that I believe readers need what this story offers,” he recently wrote to me. And I couldn’t agree more.
The Bad Weather Friend is an unexpected journey that combines the wit of The Princess Bride with the gothic and wry cross-genre appeal of Netflix’s Wednesday. But it’s that indelible thread of hope, something that touches every page of this thrilling ride, that will keep me coming back to Koontz for years to come.
—Jessica Tribble Wells, Editor
About the Author
International bestselling author Dean Koontz was only a senior in college when he won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition. He has never stopped writing since. Koontz is the author of After Death , The House at the End of the World , The Big Dark Sky , Quicksilver , The Other Emily , Elsewhere , Devoted , and seventy-nine New York Times bestsellers, fourteen of which were #1, including One Door Away from Heaven , From the Corner of His Eye , Midnight , Cold Fire , The Bad Place , Hideaway , Dragon Tears , Intensity , Sole Survivor , The Husband , Odd Hours , Relentless , What the Night Knows , and 77 Shadow Street. He’s been hailed by Rolling Stone as “America’s most popular suspense novelist,” and his books have been published in thirty-eight languages and have sold over five hundred million copies worldwide. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he now lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirits of their goldens Trixie and Anna. For more information, visit his website at www.deankoontz.com.
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Benny is so nice they feel compelled to destroy him, but he has a friend who should scare the hell out of them in this breathtaking new kind of thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.
Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He’s not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time.
How strange—though it’s a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what’s inside the crate. He’s a seven-foot-tall self-described “bad weather friend” named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. Spike will take care of it. He’ll find Benny’s enemies. He’ll deal with them. This might be satisfying if Spike wasn’t such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation.
In the company of Spike and a fascinated young waitress-cum-PI-in-training named Harper, Benny plunges into a perilous high-speed adventure, the likes of which never would have crossed the mind of a decent guy like him.
From the Publisher
Before I became his editor, I might have described Dean Koontz’s novels as terrifying. Thirteen-year-old me was scared and riveted by the sometimes-monstrous characters racing through the oft-action-packed pages. But Dean Koontz is also a very funny, thoughtful man.
With that in mind, I shouldn’t have been surprised that The Bad Weather Friend was more than a thrilling ride with some Koontzian villains and horrifying scenes so affecting you may not be able to turn out the lights. (I’ll never look at bugs in quite the same way.)
It’s also a funny, touching, and poignant novel (disguised as a buddy novel) about being a nice person with good intentions—something Dean and the very large and imposing character in his book (named Spike, of course) think deserves to be preserved and protected. “We are living in such dark and dangerous times that I believe readers need what this story offers,” he recently wrote to me. And I couldn’t agree more.
The Bad Weather Friend is an unexpected journey that combines the wit of The Princess Bride with the gothic and wry cross-genre appeal of Netflix’s Wednesday. But it’s that indelible thread of hope, something that touches every page of this thrilling ride, that will keep me coming back to Koontz for years to come.
—Jessica Tribble Wells, Editor
About the Author
International bestselling author Dean Koontz was only a senior in college when he won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition. He has never stopped writing since. Koontz is the author of After Death , The House at the End of the World , The Big Dark Sky , Quicksilver , The Other Emily , Elsewhere , Devoted , and seventy-nine New York Times bestsellers, fourteen of which were #1, including One Door Away from Heaven , From the Corner of His Eye , Midnight , Cold Fire , The Bad Place , Hideaway , Dragon Tears , Intensity , Sole Survivor , The Husband , Odd Hours , Relentless , What the Night Knows , and 77 Shadow Street. He’s been hailed by Rolling Stone as “America’s most popular suspense novelist,” and his books have been published in thirty-eight languages and have sold over five hundred million copies worldwide. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he now lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirits of their goldens Trixie and Anna. For more information, visit his website at www.deankoontz.com.