Finished We 6/29/16
I got this at the library book sale on Fr 6/10/16. I walked downtown in 95 degree heat.
This is essentially the story of Edgler Foreman Vess and Chyna Shepherd.
He is a serial killer and she was an invited guest at a home that he happened to target. His MO is to pick a home with a teenage girl, and then torture and kill everyone in sight.
This is one long Cat and Mouse Game, but satisfying nonetheless. Reminded me of GERALD'S GAME by Stephen King to a certain extent.
The novel is set along the northern coast of California and Oregon.
Chyna is visiting a college friend in the wine country of Napa Valley when Edgler attacks. Since she didn't live in the house, he isn't really aware that anyone else is around. He arrived in a large motor home, and Chyna hides herself in the back. There are two dead bodies on board.
She is witness to Edgler's murder of two convenience operators at a deserted gas station. She learns that he has a sixteen year old girl kidnapped at his house. He is waiting until this girl, Ariel, 'gets ripe'.
When Chyna arrives at the compound, he has located and captured her. She is in shackles and the place is surrounded by vicious guard dogs.
The best part of the novel is when she is shackled in the house and uses Ariel to help her escape. Ariel is in a chamber downstairs and has pretty much lost her mind.
Chyna wears one of Edgler's dog training suits to get outside and into the motor home.
As she rammed the motor home through the gate and escapes. She sees a police car and stops for assistance. It's Edgler- he's a cop.......Later, she burns him up.
In the end she escapes, with Ariel and burns Edgler alive. She had picked up a lighter in the convenience store believing that it could be used as a weapon. All the while realizing that it couldn't really be of help.
In the epilogue she has adopted Ariel.
Anne- Chyna's mother
Woltz- her boyfriend
A great Airport or Beach Read. You have gotten what you paid for with Dean Koontz.
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