Dean Koontz Podcast and The Husband Audiobook

I seriously dig Dean Koontz' writing and have enjoyed pretty much everything he writes (though the ending to The Taking pissed me off). He does the suspense/thriller thing as well as anyone. Of course, that's not too unique. The shelves are full of thrilling plots.

However, Dean actually has a mastery of the English language that many of the other books lumped in with his are just lacking. That's particularly noticable when you listen to thrillers as unabridged audiobooks. For instance, while I like the characters and stories of Patricia Cornwell, the "micro" level of her writing gets irritating when you hear every word. Koontz doesn't suffer from that.

A while back, I ran across a series of audio recordings by Dean Koontz, released as a podcast. In that series, he talked about his new book, The Husband. As a bit of a writer, I really dug the behind the scenes look at writing from someone who seems fairly accessible.

Based on the bits he talked about specifically related to The Husband, I new I probably wanted to read it, so, I added it to my SimplyAudiobooks, which brings me to today.

I'm sitting with headphones on, and the audio only paused to quickly write this up, listening to The Husband, wanting very much to stay hooked up until this thing plays out. The premise: holding an ordinary man's wife hostage, because a man who *doesn't* have access to $2 million, but loves his wife is more likely to be willing to do whatever they're asked. The actual book itself fleshes that out in seriously creepy ways.

Definitely worth the read if you're the least bit into the thriller genre. And, if you're into audiobooks, the narrators on pretty much all of his that I've listened to are pretty good, capturing the subtle differences between characters.