Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison Victor’s engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko and the original Victor’s first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed-and tested-by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. It is up to five people to prove him wrong. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress can’t find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him.

Using stem cells, “organic” silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumans-the perfect melding of flesh and machine. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the future-he’s ready to populate it. In Lost Souls, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our times-a story of revenge, redemption, and a new invitation to apocalypse. It may be too late, even if Deucalion can bring him down.#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timeless-and terrifying-creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. Victor's New Race is spectacularly different, a product of cutting-edge technology and stem-cell circuits, and when things go wrong, they go wrong in very unexpected ways.įrankenstein is unleashing a new menace on the world, whether or not he can control it. Together with the two ex-cops who helped him destroy the previous Victor, Deucalion is drawn to the small Montana town where Victor's grotesque new creations are taking shape.

He has found an enigmatic backer and is working in a secret location. Terrifyingly, with each incarnation the sinister doctor draws closer to the possibility of succeeding in his ambition to create a new human race - which he will control. Now he learns that a new Frankenstein clone, Victor Helios, is out there again, somewhere. In a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time, Dr Frankenstein lives on, seemingly indestructible, more malignant than ever.įrankenstein's first monster, Deucalion, has spent two hundred years trying to put an end to his creator. The Frankenstein story updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz.

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