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Breathless a novel

Isolating himself in the Colorado Rockies, craftsman Grady Adams encounters a pair of beautiful furred animals that challenge everything he and a local veterinarian understand about the natural world, a discovery for which they are targeted by governmentforces.

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  • "Isolating himself in the Colorado Rockies, craftsman Grady Adams encounters a pair of beautiful furred animals that challenge everything he and a local veterinarian understand about the natural world, a discovery for which they are targeted by governmentforces."@en
  • "Alienated from the modern world, Grady Adams lives in the wilds of the Colorado mountains. And there, something miraculous comes into his life, and he knows that one of Nature's great mysteries has been revealed to him. He takes his friend, scientist Cammy Rivers, to bear witness to the phenomenal presence. She is stunned and awed, and emails photos to colleagues in far places to try and find a name for the wonderful beings. But soon Homeland Security has the wilderness around them quarantined, with scientists to track down and 'neutralize' the threat to the known world. Grady and Cammy, determined to prevent this atrocity, go on the run, and a pursuit of hair-raising suspense is under way, with no happy ending in prospect ..."
  • "Isolating himself in the Colorado Rockies, craftsman Grady Adams encounters a pair of beautiful furred animals that challenge everything he and a local veterinarian understand about the natural world, a discovery for which they are targeted by government forces."
  • "BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's Odd Apocalypse.#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure, as the lives of strangers converge around a mystery unfolding high in the Colorado mountains?and the balance of the world begins to tilt?.In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound Merlin step from shadow into light?and into an encounter with enchantment. That night, through the trees, under the moon, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to make their approach.A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring all the forces of a government in peril to her door.At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to begin a descent into darkness?In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable?On a Seattle golf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murder?Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek toward his destiny?In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the moment between one turn of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and mystery. It is a journey that will leave all who take it Breathless. ??"@en
  • "Sie kommen im Dunkel der Nacht Auf einem einsamen Spaziergang begegnet Grady Adams etwas Unglaubliches: zwei hundeähnliche Wesen, die nicht von dieser Welt zu sein scheinen. Woher aber kommen sie dann? Und noch wichtiger: Weswegen sind sie hier? Im Namen der nationalen Sicherheit riegeln Soldaten und Wissenschaftler das Gebiet ab. Aber wer ist die eigentliche Gefahr? In einer Welt, die von Tag zu Tag mehr dem Bösen anheimfällt, muss Grady Adams die Entscheidung seines Lebens treffen. Dean Koontz wurde 1945 in Pennsylvania geboren und lebt heute mit seiner Frau in Kalifornien. Seine zahlreichen Romane - Thriller und Horrorromane - wurden in 38 Sprachen übersetzt und sämtlich zu internationalen Bestsellern. Weltweit wurden bislang 400 Millionen Exemplare seiner Bücher verkauft. Zuletzt bei Heyne erschienen: 'Blindwütig'"
  • "The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Relentless."@en
  • "When Grady Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Gary and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures."@en
  • "BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's Odd Apocalypse. #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure, as the lives of strangers converge around a mystery unfolding high in the Colorado mountains'and the balance of the world begins to tilt. In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound Merlin step from shadow into lightand into an encounter with enchantment. That night, through the trees, under the moon, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to make their approach. A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring all the forces of a government in peril to her door. At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to begin a descent into darknessIn Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowableOn a Seattle golf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murderAlong a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek toward his destiny In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the moment between one turn of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and mystery. It is a journey that will leave all who take it Breathless."@en
  • "Grady, Cammy, and the two creatures they've come to feel they must protect find themselves virtual prisoners of Homeland Security - and the focus of biologists, naturalists, and research scientists. But it's an event no one could have foreseen that convinces them to escape with the two creatures on a riveting race for freedom."
  • "When Colorado carpenter Grady Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Grady, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Grady and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures."
  • "In the Colorado mountains something miraculous comes into the life of Grady Adams, a strong, gentle man whose past experiences have alienated him from the modern world and driven him to live in the wilds. When he sees it, he knows that one of Nature's great mysteries has been revealed to him."
  • "When Colorado carpenter Gary Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Gary, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Gary and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures."
  • "When Colorado carpenter Gary Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Gary, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Gary and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures."@en
  • "One day, while hiking, Grady Adams spots a pair of stunningly beautiful furred animals unlike anything he's ever seen. After a few attempts, Grady approaches the creatures again, gaining their trust but coming no closer to solving their mystery. With the help of a veterinarian friend, they come to feel they must protect them at all costs when Homeland Security places his home under quarantine. Soon they find themselves virtual prisoners, but it's a stunning event no one could have foreseen that convinces them to do the unthinkable: to escape with the two creatures on a riveting race for freedom."@en

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  • "Thriller / suspense"@en
  • "Suspense fiction, American"
  • "Suspense fiction, American"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Breathless (C) : a novel"
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  • "Breathless a novel"
  • "Die Unbekannten : Roman"
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  • "Breathless A Novel"@en
  • "Breathless"@en
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  • "Затаив дыхание : [роман]"
  • "Breathless : a novel"
  • "Breathless : a novel"@en
  • "Ademloos"
  • "Die Unbekannten Roman"

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