Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of...

Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion's path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O'Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire race of killers who are much more - and less - than human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Helios - once known as Frankenstein.

©2005 Dean Koontz (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

brilliant story! can't wait to explore this series

Having read the original Frankenstein and other of Koontz's work, if you like both of those you will love this. I cannot wait to listen to the next installment of the series.

Excellent

I think Dean Koontz a great writer but I was hesitant in reading a reimagined Frankenstein. I was very pleasantly surprised. I finished it in two days and I’m starting the 2nd book immediately. A fantastic book and narrator!

Not What I Expected

I really liked Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas books, but this one was just weird and disturbing. An interesting twist on an old classic, but really grotesque and hard to get through.

A fun read

I enjoyed the book. It was engaging and I liked the concept behind it. I look forward to the rest of the series.

Predictable

Predictably tantalizing, this story seems written by committee. Luckily, the story is relatively brief, though it fails to arrive at a conclusion. When a story obviously and exclusively points to a sequel, I lose interest.