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De overlevende

door Dean Koontz

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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead â?? no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter.
A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any questions, she slips away.
Driven now by rage (have the authorities withheld information?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (if there is one survivor, are there others?), Joe sets out to find the mysterious woman. His search immediately leads him into the path of a powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rose before she can reveal what she knows about the crash.
Sole Survivor unfolds at a heart-stopping pace, as a desperate chase and a shattering emotional odyssey lead Joe to a truth that will force him to reassess everything he thought he knew about life and death â?? a truth that, given the chance, will rock the world and redefine the destiny of humanity.
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Very good tale of a man's pursuit of the apparent survivor of an airliner crash that killed his family.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
Not my thing. Although interesting and terrifying premise of science at its worst, it was just too science fiction to be believable. I would hate to think that anything in this story would or could take place. ( )
  booklovers2 | Nov 25, 2023 |
Joe Carpenter is an angry, lost man since his wife and two daughters died in a horrific plane crash. Then he runs into Rose, and all heck breaks loose. Suddenly, he's being stalked by a group of genetic scientists who have been busy creating genetically enhanced kids. Yes, it's an old horror story, but this one has a twist. One small child can bring hope to the world through a touch of her hand. Sound crazy? It is. I don't think this book is one of Mr. Koontz's best works. The characters were unlikeable, and the story never drew me in. Large chunks of descriptive narrative were meaningless to the storyline. ( )
  PaulaGalvan | Nov 16, 2023 |
A well plotted supernatural thriller, this book is going to mean different things to different people primarily depending on their religious beliefs. At first, I was a little irritated by its message, which I saw as potentially flawed. Without giving away the revelation, it’s hard to explain why, except to say there’s no way to know the truth behind what someone shows people. I think the main character of Joe Carpenter explores a husband's and father’s grief well, but the book feels overlong. There’s an almost comfortable ride, even through moments of tension and a lot left toward the end to be revealed. Not as boring as an info dump, still it’s a lot to take in. It’s like 90% of the book builds question after question and then the remaining chunk provides the answer and it left me feeling a little bombarded as I finished the novel. Having said that, I’d have to take time to consider how anyone would present this story in another format and it’s an imaginative plot. We know Koontz for incorporating his religious beliefs and there’s a high percentage of that here, but, as I’ve said, everything here is open to interpretation. It’s gripping enough to be well worth reading once, though this was a re-read for me after many years. ( )
  SharonMariaBidwell | Aug 10, 2023 |
Un inexplicable accidente aéreo acaba con la vida de trescientas treinta personas, entre las que se encuentra la familia del cronista de sucesos Joe Carpenter. Cuando un año más tarde conoce a Rose, una enigmática mujer que dice ser una superviviente de la tragedia, la ilusión de que su familia pudiera haber corrido con la misma suerte que ella se convierte en una obsesión. Sin embargo, Rose desaparece sin dejar rastro. La sospecha de que las autoridades ocultaron información a los familiares de las víctimas lo impulsa a la búsqueda desesperada de Rose. Dicha búsqueda lo pone sobre la pista de una poderosa y siniestra organización dispuesta a impedir por todos los medios que nadie desvele sus secretos. La terrible verdad que Joe acaba descubriendo lo obliga a reconsiderar todo cuanto creía saber sobre los límites de la vida y la muerte, la bondad y el amor.
  Natt90 | Feb 28, 2023 |
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if all we have is what lies here,
this lonely world, this troubled place,
then cold dead stars and empty space . . .
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To the memory of Ray Mock, my uncle, who long ago moved on to a better world.

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At two-thirty Saturday morning, in Los Angeles, Joe Carpenter woke, clutching a pillow to his chest, calling his lost wife's name in the darkness.
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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead â?? no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter.
A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any questions, she slips away.
Driven now by rage (have the authorities withheld information?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (if there is one survivor, are there others?), Joe sets out to find the mysterious woman. His search immediately leads him into the path of a powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rose before she can reveal what she knows about the crash.
Sole Survivor unfolds at a heart-stopping pace, as a desperate chase and a shattering emotional odyssey lead Joe to a truth that will force him to reassess everything he thought he knew about life and death â?? a truth that, given the chance, will rock the world and redefine the destiny of humanity.
From the Trade Paperback edition

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