Finished We 3/21/18
This is one of the paperbacks that I picked up on Thursday, 3/1/18 at the Prairie Archives on the square downtown.
The title refers to, "Parish Lantern", an old English slang term for 'moonlight'. Parish Lantern is the name of a talk radio host who was inoculated with 'the stuff'. 'The Moonlight Club' will be the name of these super heroes- possible sequel in the offing?
No other author is able to envelop the reader right into the thick of the action within the first few paragraphs of chapter one better than Dean Koontz. The story kicks off in the parking lot of a seedy budget hotel in rural Arizona.
Dylan O'Connor- Itinerant artist traveling the US selling his paintings. 29 yrs old.
Sheppard O'Connor- Autistic; very high IQ
Jillian Jackson- Stand-up comedian hitting clubs in the southwest
Parish Lantern- Talk radio jock similar to Art Bell
Lincoln Proctor- the evil doctor who developed 'the stuff'. He was hoping to lead a new race infected with his serum. Eating peanuts while infecting Dylan and Jilly. He grins and talks crazy megalomania like nonsense.
The characters battle an army of mercenaries who are out to kill them. Who they are is not really developed, but clearly the US government could not allow 'super heroes' to exist without control.
In the end, the main characters are at Lantern's huge Frank Lloyd Wright home on Lake Tahoe.
They decide to form 'The Moonlight Club' for the good of mankind. Although it makes you wonder exactly what they would do. For instance, your Freedom Fighters might be my Terrorists.
I'd read anything by Koontz, but the reason I picked this one up is that I heard a podcast of Greg Iles and he said that nobody writes Horror better than Dean Koontz. One of these days I'm going to read one of his 'best' horror novels.
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