Winner of the 2019 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator with an
afterword read by the author
A "superior thriller" (Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a
terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1
New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz--nominated as one of
America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
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.
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...