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THE HUSBAND
by Dean Koontz
Bantam, May 2006
416 pages
$27.00
ISBN: 0553804790


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Mitch Rafferty is living his dream life. He's married to Holly whom he loves more than anything and has his own gardening company. He spends his days taking care of the grounds of rich people in California and he spends his nights with Holly. He dreams that someday he and his wife will be able to live in the type of home that he works around, but until then they're happy with what they have.

But things never stay perfect and one day while Mitch is gardening at one of the estates he gets a phone call from a stranger saying that Holly has been kidnapped and will be killed unless Mitch can find $2 million dollars. Mitch explains that he is only a gardener and can never get that much money but the kidnappers say that there is a way. Mitch is told not to go to the police or Holly will be killed immediately. To prove their point the kidnapper tells Mitch to look at a man who is walking a dog a block away. Suddenly a shot rings out and the dog walker is killed.

Mitch has got to find a way to get the money while avoiding the police investigation into the killed dog walker. The police detective thinks that Mitch is hiding something and is keeping a close watch on him.

The police aren't the only ones watching Mitch. The kidnappers are somehow recording all the conversations Mitch has with the police and they are also following him. How is Mitch going to ever going collect the ransom and avoid the police who are starting to think that Mitch is somehow involved with the murdered dog walker?

Author Dean Koontz has written a terrific thriller with THE HUSBAND. Most of the book deals with Mitch's dilemma but there are plenty of chapters where the readers are able to see what Holly is going through.

Koontz has added some amazing twists that show how Mitch changes throughout his ordeal and the reader is able to understand the very staggering reasons why these changes occur.

Most of the book was paced out nicely but I felt that the end of the story came about a bit too fast. Even so, THE HUSBAND is a knockout book and shouldn't be missed.

Reviewed by Sharon Katz, May 2006

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