CLOSER… They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. AND CLOSER… At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. AND CLOSER… But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined… “A master storyteller…his fast-paced plots are wonderfully fiendish, taking unexpected twists and turns.” —San Diego Union-Tribune “First-rate…scary and plausible.” —Publishers Weekly “Gruesome and unrelenting.” —Stephen King “Koontz has outdone himself. A terrifying story.” —Philadelphia Daily News