<b>A “superior thriller”(<i>Oakland Press</i>) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Dean Koontz—<b>nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i>.</b><br><br></b>On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods.<br><br>That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation...