Sub-category: Thriller
The plot: A man meets a woman. The next night, she is gone. He goes to her place and is nearly killed in a covert raid on her place. Convinced that the woman is the one who can give him a life, he sets off to find her. However, he rapidly finds out she has no past, having systematically erased it behind her. Undetterred, he tries to find her - and a maverick governement agency now wants to find him as well as her. However, he has secrets of his own which frustrate the government trying to follow them both...
Comment: Well! Not quite your usual Koontz horror piece at all! Actually, an extremely well-written thriller. The reason why comes out at the very end in Koontz's Afterword - this is more of a political work designed to highlight some devastating and crippling laws the that have been implemented in America (to give away more, would be to give away the plot...).

Although the pace is not fast, this book enthralls the reader and keeps them turning pages as we try to work out the 'who, what, why, how' of it all - as in 'WHO is this woman, WHAT has she done to be persued to aggressively, WHY is this man so attracted to her and HOW are they going to escape the government agency?" I actually don't even want to know what time I was able to put the book down each night for 3 nights, because I was very tired by the end of it owing to the lack of sleep I got while reading it... So, if you have some spare time and want to read a good old fashioned thriller, this suprising 'little' Koontz gem is highly recommended.