The Husband by Dean Koontz5/9/2023 But with every book, Koontz becomes more and more of a moralist, directing with a heavy hand how his thrillers are interpreted. This has resulted in some effective thrillers, and readers respond to the catharsis of finally getting to see these monsters get what’s coming to them. His serial killers are free from all human qualities, and unlike, say, Hannibal Lecter, they’re never allowed to be even superficially charming or magnetic. The popularity of Dean Koontz, whose newest thriller, The Husband, is currently on top of the New York Times best-seller list, rests on two guarantees: the Koontz protagonist, always an ordinary person, wounded by life, and usually burdened with a bad childhood will be unusually easy to identify with, while the Koontz villain will be so impregnably vain, so intricate in his self-justification, and so nearly omnipotent that you won’t be able to resist viscerally hating him. Under all the shades of gray, everything is black and white, Mitch.
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