Intensity : What an Understatement What can make a book so intense that you are nervously anxious to see what will happen next? This is what Dean Koontz does with extreme sensibility. Very rarely is a psycho-thriller like this done without moments of stupidness and predictability. Koontz’ attention to detail makes the novel a very surreal experience. The precise description of a drop of blood on the carpet, or how to escape being chained to a heavy wooden chair, is all part of the experience. Koontz essentially covers all of his bases in making the plot have to happen the way it does. The reader rarely has the chance to second-guess anything. The killer is not your typi