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A 3 page book review of Dean Koontz's thriller Velocity. The writer summarizes the plot and discusses the gripping nature of the suspense. No additional sources cited.
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bar for a living, faced with life-and-death decisions formulated by the devious mind of serial killer. The book pivots around the contemporary reality that it is possible for outsiders to
learn all the details of our lives, everything about our identity, from unscrupulous methods. Therefore, there is an element of the Everyman to Billys story that makes it even more
harrowing. The book begins with a deceptively light-hearted tone, as Koontz pictures his hero, Billy Wilder, in his working environment, a bar in a small California town. The readers
are introduced to Billy in passing as the opening focuses on the rambling of a drunk customer, who likes to salute the death of his neighbor who fell to his
death from a rooftop. Billy helps to fill in a stranger to the bar on the macabre story behind the death, but basically just listens, as he was "never one
of those barkeeps who considered the bar a stage. He was a listener" (Koontz 2). As this indicates, Billy is portrayed as an ordinary Joe, a reclusive guy who spends
his time carving wood sculptures and visiting his fiance, Barbara, in the hospital. Barbara has been comatose for several years after reacting to ingesting tainted food just weeks before their
wedding. This mundane existence is shattered when Billy finds a note on the windshield of his car, which indicates that his actions will decide who becomes a murder victim:
if he takes the note to the police, the writer of the note threatens to kill a "lovely blond schoolteacher," but it he does not take the note to the
police, the writer says that an elderly women "active in charity work" will die instead. Billy is given four hours to decide. Billy takes the note to a friend
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