Genre: Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, Paranormal Recommended.An alien invasion that will blow your mind. I found the Nobody series extremely satisfying, though the basic concept did bother me. I’m not going to link to the rest of the series, because you’ll want to read them in order, but here are the titles: #2: Photographing the Dead #3: The Praying Mantis Bride #4: Red Rain #5: The Mercy of Snakes and #6: Memories of Tomorrow.Įach volume is cheap, although when you buy them all (and I suspect you will), you’ll end up paying about what you’d pay for a full novel by Koontz. The first novella in the Nobody series is In the Heart of the Fire. The reader’s questions on that subject will be answered – in a satisfying way – in the final book. Our focus is not on the shot-caller, but on the hero, a driven man haunted by premonitions and – perhaps – by inchoate memories. What if unlimited surveillance and data processing power were turned to the purposes of good? That strikes this reader as hubristic on a cosmic scale, but here it’s just a backdrop for the action and the mystery. In the six novellas of this new Nobody series, he turns that idea on its head. In his previous series of novels, the Jane Hawk books, author Dean Koontz imagined a high tech dystopia, something like Skynet, where surveillance satellites and cameras were linked to super-computers to buttress the greatest tyranny the world ever knew. He doesn’t know who he works for, whether it’s an individual or a group or some kind of artificial intelligence. He comes in like a classic avenging angel, then proceeds to the next assignment. He suspects this amnesia has been induced, and that he volunteered for it. Nameless has no memory of his past up to a couple years ago. Nameless takes them down, protecting the innocent, avenging the dead. It’s always a case of some person or persons doing evil beyond the reach of the law – a serial killer, a serial rapist, an entitled psychopath.
He listens to a digital recording explaining his assignment. There’s a large amount of money and necessary equipment, plus a gun. There’s a vehicle waiting for him, with a suitcase inside. The man called Nameless characteristically arrives in a community to find preparations made.
Well, it’s now possible for justice to be delivered nonetheless.” ( In the Heart of the Fire)
If sometimes local law enforcement doesn’t want to find it or if the courts don’t want to hear it, or if those who expose it might be ruined or killed for their efforts. “…In this world of computers, satellite tracking, and so many other government surveillance tools, all of them accessible to hackers outside the government, the truth can be found with enough effort.
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