He is driving neither his Tesla nor his Mercedes 550SL, because eventually the authorities will be looking for him. Initially, however, he is treating this failure as absolute. Ultimately, failure can be the father of success if one learns from the errors made.

Every scientific endeavor is marked by setbacks. The final result of the project is not yet known, only that it’s gone wrong in mid stage. How could humanity have advanced from caves to orbiting space stations if all men and women were risk averse? Some seek knowledge and rise to challenges at whatever cost, and because of them, progress is made.Īnyway, all may be well in the end. He believes that those intentions matter more than the consequences of his actions. If he has committed as much evil as any man in history, he has done it with the best intentions. He uses less-busy state highways, undivided federal highways when he must, anxious to put as much distance as possible between himself and the events at the Springville facility. Traveling south out of the Provo suburbs into ever greater isolation, Lee Shacket dares not take Interstate 15. In the nearly empty vastness, small clusters of lights glimmer here and there in the distance, like extraterrestrial pod craft that have descended from the mother ship on some nefarious mission.

The two-lane blacktop is a dark snake slithering through the moon-washed paleness of the Utah wastelands.

Something went very, very wrong in those laboratories he's trying to get away before anyone figures out what, and cover his own tracks in the process.Ĭheck out the exclusive excerpt, along with an animated book cover reveal, below you can pre-order Devoted on Amazon now. Desperate and vicious, Shacket is fleeing Utah with a million dollars cash, after blowing up a research facility owned by his company, Refine. Next up is Devoted, 'an epic thriller about a golden retriever, a boy named Woody, his mother Megan, and their extended family as they confront a terrifying threat to all humanity.' It won't hit shelves and Kindles until next March, but good news: we've got an exclusive excerpt to share, which introduces the story's antagonist, Lee Shacket.

And now, at 74, he's embarking on a new publishing venture: a multi-book deal with Amazon Publishing imprint Thomas & Mercer, as well as a new collection of six short thrillers, Nameless, out this week from Amazon Publishing imprint Amazon Original Stories. Fourteen of his novels have topped the New York Times best-seller list. Few names in modern publishing are as widely recognized as Dean Koontz, whose novels have sold over 500 million copies to date in 38 languages.

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