Velocity

By Dean Koontz,

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
If you donā€™t take this note to the police . . . I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. . . . If you do . . . I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have six hours to decide. Theā€¦

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1 author picked Velocity as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This one is a banger. A serial killer has picked Bill, a bartender, to play a game of who lives and who dies. Choose your own slaughter, if you will.

What's so deviously gorgeous about this book is how the hero must learn how to beat the game so that no one dies and he can stop a twisted killer in his tracks. Itā€™s such a great premise for an out-of-their-depth hero.

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