The difference between right and wrong just got deadly... From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes a breathtaking tale of an ordinary man pushed to the limit, in the ultimate battle against and adversary whose malice know no bounds...

    Timothy Carrier thinks he is engaging in a few minutes of harmless banter with the stranger who takes a seat beside him at the bar he frequents. But the jittery man has mistaken Tim for someone else--and passes him an envelope stuffed with cash and the photo of a pretty woman marked for death. "Ten thousand now. You get the rest when she's gone."    Suddenly, Tim Carrier is at the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions, the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer as relentless as evil incarnate. But first he must discover resources within himself of which he never dreamed, capacities that will transform his idea of who he is and what it takes to be The Good Guy.