dean koontz presents a wonderful tale of suspense, horror drama, and even some science fiction in a wonderful book definitly should go down as a classic it all starts off a guy who is your ordinary joe taking a trip to the mountians on his birthday if i remember correctly. on this trip travis (the ordinary joe) meets a dog who at first appears kinda screwed up but it turns out that the dog is really smart it even understands english and can communticate with travis... but the dog isn't alone... the dog escaped from a labratory along with the dog there is this thing that hates the dog a "perfect soilder" created to kill and it's target is the dog. that's all i can say without spoiling the book