Velocity. Dean Koontz

      Velocity

      Dean Koontz

      

      This book is dedicated to Donna and Steve Dunio, Vito and Lynn Cerra, Ross and Rosemary Cerra. I’ll never figure out why Gerda said yes to me. But now your family has a crazy wing.

       A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

      —ERNEST HEMINGWAY,

      The Old Man and the Sea

       And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbour Unless his neighbour makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

      —T. S. ELIOT,

      Choruses from “The Rock”

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Epigraph

PART ONE The Choice is Yours

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       PART TWO Are You Prepared for Your Second Wound?

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       PART THREE All You Have is How You Live

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