The Forbidden Door
Her enemies will learn the true meaning of fear…The No.1 New York Times bestseller and master of suspense Dean Koontz returns with the new Jane Hawk blockbuster.‘I will come for you. Nothing can stop me!’Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk is on the trail of the members of a murderous organization who drove her husband – and scores of other fine individuals – to commit suicide for no explicable reason.After discovering their plan to subjugate the world by means of an insidious new technology, she has been hunting them down one by one. Now she is America's most wanted fugitive, and the organization is closing in on her beloved five-year-old son, whom she sent into protective hiding with her dearest friends.Faced with insurmountable odds, but armed with a mother’s love for her son, Jane will stop at nothing to save him. But even if she can get to him in time there's still the risk that the forbidden door will be opened and an unimaginable terror unleashed.
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First published in the USA in 2018 by Bantam Books,
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Copyright © Dean Koontz 2018
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Cover photographs © Hayden Verry/Arcangel Images (doorway), Stephen Mulcahey/Arcangel Images (girl)
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This book is dedicated to Leason and Marlene Pomeroy, affectionately known as the fireball and the firecracker, who are a wondrous delight.
For all we have and are,
For all our childrenâs fate â¦
âRUDYARD KIPLING, âFor All We Have and Areâ
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and, baby,
These are the days of miracle and wonder.
âPAUL SIMON, âThe Boy in the Bubbleâ
Creating a neural [brain] lace is the thing that really matters for humanity to achieve symbiosis with machines.
âELON MUSK
Contents
AT FIRST THE BREEZE WAS NO MORE THAN A LONG sigh, breathing through the Texas high country as though expressing some sadness attendant to Nature herself.
They were sitting in the fresh air, in the late-afternoon light, because they assumed that the house was bugged, that anything they said within its rooms would be monitored in real time.
Likewise, they trusted neither the porches nor the barn, nor the horse stables.
When they had something important to discuss, they retreated to the redwood lawn chairs under the massive oak tree in the backyard, facing a flatness of grassland that rolled on to the distant horizon and, for all that the eye could tell, continued to eternity.
As Sunday afternoon became evening, Ancel and Clare Hawk sat in those chairs, she with a martini, he with Macallan Scotch over ice, steeling themselves for an upcoming television program they didnât want to watch but that might change their lives.
âWhat bombshell can they be talking about?â Clare wondered.
âItâs TV news,â Ancel said. âThey pitch most every story like itâll shake the foundations of the world. Itâs how they sell soap.â
