They are hunted down and return home just in the nick of time, but not without bringing an unexpected passenger. They accidentally activate the device and Jeffy and Amity land on Earth 1.13, an alternate timeline in which America has become a fascist state. It is in the form of a smartphone, or remote control. Jeffy opens the package to hide the contents more easily. Moments later, the NSA invades their home. One day Ed gives him a package telling him never to open it, and certainly never use what is inside, what he calls the Key to Everything. Jeffrey sometimes talks to local eccentric Spooky Ed. Jeffrey Coltrane and his daughter Amity are living the best life they can after wife and mother Michelle disappeared seven years ago. Think "From the Corner of His Eye" and his "Frankenstein" series. Koontz has been referring to this theme for years. So the theme is parallel worlds, the multiverse. And the cover is very similar to the title sequence of the BBC series "His Dark Materials". The title "Elsewhere" refers to a different place, somewhere else. However, this was not so difficult with this book. ' has always had near-Dickensian powers of description, and an ability to yank us from one page to the next that few novelists can match' Los Angeles TimesĮveryone who knows me well knows that I usually order new books by Dean Koontz six months in advance, without knowing what they are about. 'Psychologically complex, masterly and satisfying' New York Times 'Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler' The Times 'The fear he generates is visceral' Courier Mail Unless Amity and Jeffy can outwit him, the place they call home may never be safe again. A man with a dark purpose is in pursuit, determined to use its grand potential for profound evil. Jeffy and Amity aren't the only ones interested in the device. And Jeffy and Amity can't help but wonder, could Michelle be just a click away? The device allows them to jump between parallel planes at once familiar and bizarre, wondrous and terrifying. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. It's a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep.Įd entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object-something he calls "the key to everything" - and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Southern California. The fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.
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