Wilderness

with repeating himself.”

—Chicago Sun-Times

“Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose. ‘Serious’ writers… might do well to examine his technique.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“[Koontz] has always had near-Dickensian powers of description, and an ability to yank us from one page to the next that few novelists can match.”

—Los Angeles Times

“Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular fiction to explore the human condition.”

—USA Today

“Characters and the search for meaning, exquisitely crafted, are the soul of [Koontz’s] work… . One of the master storytellers of this or any age.”

—The Tampa Tribune

“A literary juggler.”

—The Times (London)

Copyright

Wilderness is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

A Bantam Books eBook Original

Copyright © 2013 by Dean Koontz

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.

BANTAM BOOKS and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.

eBook ISBN 978-0-8041-7861-7

Cover design: Scott Biel

Cover images: (forest) Travelpix Ltd/The Image Bank/Getty Images; (walker in hooded sweatshirt) Valeri Byrne/Flickr Open/Getty Images

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