Bestselling Horror Thriller Novel Authors: Dean Koontz and Lost Souls, Frankenstein series

Since The Island of Doctor Moreau by Robert Louis Stevenson and the classic gothic fiction novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley we know what can happen if ambition and science go down the wrong way in an unconscientious doctor’s hands. The New York Times bestselling American author Dean Koontz shows us a different and modern approach of Shelley’s story in his gripping horror-thriller-science fiction series Frankenstein.



A certain sadistic doctor, named Victor Helios (who is actually the same person like Victor Frankenstein, and, in the series, Mary Shelley’s novel was initially based on his story), has survived throughout centuries, experimentingon himself. He still works hard to create a New Race instead of the imperfect humankind: he creates living androids who cannot disobey him, and some of them (like Randal Six, who was designed to be mentally ill, so that Helios could experiment on him). Helios’s first creature (who calls himself Deucalion, a hint of Mary Shelley’s subtitle A Modern Prometheus: in Greek mythology, Deucalion is Prometheus’s son) sides with the detectives (a humorous, nice, thus not-too-interesting couple) to stop Helios. In the third instalment they kill him indeed – however, he still has a clone with whom the survivors need to cope in the fourth part, Lost Souls. Thus at the beginning of the novel, we see a small American town that has a nameless secret. Someone stalks the streets and hunts for victims – actually he wishes to wipe off the whole human race.

About the Book:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timeless--and terrifying--creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. In Lost Souls, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our times--a story of revenge, redemption, and the razor-thin line that separates humanity from inhumanity as we consider a new invitation to apocalypse.

The work of creation has begun again. Only now things will be different. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the future--he's ready to populate it. Using stem cells, "organic" silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumans--the perfect melding of flesh and machine. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress can't find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him.

It is up to five people to prove him wrong. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself.

They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed--and tested--by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they could not have imagined.

They will need all these resources, and more. For a monumental battle is about to commence that will require all their ingenuity and courage, as it defines what we are to be . . . and if we are to be at all.