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Hideaway
Author: Dean Koontz
Following a traffic accident that left him clinically dead for more than 80 minutes, a Southern California antique dealer named Hatch Harrison begins experiencing strange dreams and visions that connect him to a psychopathic killer, a young man who calls himself "Vassago." Vassago believes that he is the human incarnation of one of the...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780425135259
ISBN-10: 042513525X
Publication Date: 12/1/1992
Pages: 416
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 272 ratings
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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reviewed Hideaway on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
Really strange book. Koontz is defintely original. I don't know where he comes up with his topics but they all scare the crap out of me. But I always keep reading and buying more Koontz books.
If you are a Koontz fan - you'll love this as usual. But if you don't like creepy and gorey you won't like it.
reviewed Hideaway on + 13 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
One of my favorite Dean Koontz books--two people are clinically dead for a long while. After the docs manage to revive them, they bring something back from the "other side." One brings a force of goodness; the other broings a force of evil. These Forces must do battle...here on Earth.
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Helpful Score: 4
Hatch has just survived a car wreck. Well, actually, technically he DIDN'T survive it--Hatch was clinically dead for 80 minutes. When he comes back, there is SOMETHING with him, a presence in his head...a mysterious, murderous character who calls himself Vassago, and yearns for nothing more than death and destruction...

But Hatch is determined to continue his life. He and his wife adopt a child. They live happily. But Vassago is closing in. He, too, is aware of the connection with Hatch, and he would relish the opportunity to ruin Hatch's life, and kill everyone he loves...

"Hideaway" is one of Koontz's all-time best...and also, as he points out in the new afterword, the first to receive hate-mail. Still, don't let a few letters get you down; "Hideaway" moves along at breakneck speeds, like most of Koontz's books, and features characters that are so real, you are genuinely afraid for--or of--them. This is one of the best books by one of the best authors out there, and shouldn't be passed up by suspense fans.
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Helpful Score: 2
This is an old classic by Dean Koontz. It concerns a man who is revived after a car crash, who was clinically dead. He starts seeing visions of a murderer who is stalking women near where he lives. He knows he has to stop the man, but how can he find him, and how can he stop them when he can't tell the police what he knows? It is a very suspenseful book and is definitely worth reading.
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Helpful Score: 2
As usual Dean Koontz can keep you on the edge of your seat! This one involves danger to a child. I found it hard to put down.
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Another good weird Dean Koontz book!
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keeps the reader interested from the first page til the last
positiveid avatar reviewed Hideaway on + 3 more book reviews
This book and Movie are both fantastic mos def reccomend for all Koontz fans and new to him he is well established in his genre.
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Typical Dean Koontz.....great! As always, the characters begin to become "people" and draw you in to their world and situation. This author is one of few who get this right every time without becoming the same story, different names.
jweav avatar reviewed Hideaway on + 15 more book reviews
Enjoyed it quite a bit, but as I have read so many of Koontz's books, I can't say it was the best one, but I liked the battle of good versus evil at the end.


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