The Night Window: A Jane Hawk Novel
by Dean Koontz
A visionary young filmmaker hunted for sport across a vast Colorado ranch by the celebrated billionaire at the heart of a monstrous cabal . . .
A brilliant computer hacker slipping through top-secret databases a whisper ahead of security trackers, gathering the facts to fight the all-powerful perpetrators of mass murder . . .
A pair of brutal operators, methodically shadowing their targets with every cutting-edge tool in the arsenal of today’s surveillance state . . .
A sequence of quiet heroes—everyday citizens—stepping up, stepping forward, intent on countering the advancing darkness . . .
A Vegas mob boss teamed with a homicidal sociopath, circling a beloved boy and his protectors, aiming to secure him as leverage against his fugitive mother . . .
And that fugitive mother herself, ex-agent Jane Hawk, closing in on the malevolent architects of ruin she has stalked as they stalk her, prepared to sacrifice herself to finally bring them down.
These are the people and circumstances of The Night Window, the thrilling new novel in Dean Koontz’s acclaimed Jane Hawk series. Replete—and then some—with the ingenious twists, the spellbinding action, the resonant themes, the sheer heart that have characterized Jane’s journey from the start, The Night Window follows its extraordinary heroine to her long-sought objective, in a stunning, unforgettable finale.
Momma Says: 4 stars⭐⭐⭐⭐
What started as one woman's determination to prove that her husband didn't commit suicide comes to a gripping conclusion in The Night Window. We're five books in at this point, and I'll admit that this series has been up and down for me - mostly up, but it has had its moments where I wasn't sure how much further these characters could go. As it turns out, Koontz proves once again that he knows his stuff. Jane is still as fierce and intelligent as she's been from the beginning, but we get to glimpse her softer side here as she gets some help she didn't expect and finds allies in unlikely places. At points in the series, I had some doubt about just how human Jane actually was, she was beginning to come across as almost machine-like, almost invincible, so I enjoyed seeing her a little vulnerable as she goes for broke and makes her final moves. The story is lengthy, and of course it's filled with a bit more colorful prose than absolutely necessary, but this is Dean Koontz after all. It's also not a book I would consider as a standalone. So many things had to happen to get to the events in The Night Window, so I would definitely recommend reading the series in order. That said, the whole series a story well-worth the reading time, especially if you enjoy techno-thrillers. All in all, Jane Hawk's story is another great in a long line of greats from this author.
What started as one woman's determination to prove that her husband didn't commit suicide comes to a gripping conclusion in The Night Window. We're five books in at this point, and I'll admit that this series has been up and down for me - mostly up, but it has had its moments where I wasn't sure how much further these characters could go. As it turns out, Koontz proves once again that he knows his stuff. Jane is still as fierce and intelligent as she's been from the beginning, but we get to glimpse her softer side here as she gets some help she didn't expect and finds allies in unlikely places. At points in the series, I had some doubt about just how human Jane actually was, she was beginning to come across as almost machine-like, almost invincible, so I enjoyed seeing her a little vulnerable as she goes for broke and makes her final moves. The story is lengthy, and of course it's filled with a bit more colorful prose than absolutely necessary, but this is Dean Koontz after all. It's also not a book I would consider as a standalone. So many things had to happen to get to the events in The Night Window, so I would definitely recommend reading the series in order. That said, the whole series a story well-worth the reading time, especially if you enjoy techno-thrillers. All in all, Jane Hawk's story is another great in a long line of greats from this author.
❃❃ARC provided by NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine
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