Dawn (Dean Koontz)

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Dawn (original title: " Tick ​​Tock ") is a novel by Dean Koontz , which was written immediately after "Dark Rivers of the Heart" and "Intensity" in 1996 and was published in Germany in 1998. These two tales were two of the darkest and most disturbing works by Dean Koontz. After the conclusion, the author said he was so distraught that he found a more straightforward, positive story for his next book almost imperative.

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In the style of a classic American screwball comedy , a likable young man meets a young girl who soon turns out to be a chaotic power woman who takes him from one hair-raising situation to another. It all begins when the hero of the story, a young journalist of Vietnamese descent, discovers a rag doll on his doorstep. A small, reptile-like demon with almost human intelligence escapes and attacks him. The young man wages a desperate defensive battle and then runs out of the house in panic. On the run, he meets a waitress who joins them out of a thirst for adventure. The demon grows hour by hour and eventually takes on human form. The two have to hold out until dawn, then the attacker loses his strength. They are supported by the man's Vietnamese relatives who are trying to decipher the ancient characters on a piece of paper attached to the rag doll.

The typical Dean-Koontz knitting pattern is particularly clear here: First, a likable loner is attacked. In the course of the action, a first helper appears in a person of the same age of the opposite sex. Continue. Ultimately, together you defeat evil.

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