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While I'm not a fan of Koontz's "silly" novels, such as The Face and Odd Thomas, I think he is exceptionally good at writing psychological thrillers. The first book I ever read by him was Chase (one of his first books) and I thought it was excellent. Simple yet gripping. Velocity is the same. Billy Wiles, a bartender and wood carver with a comatosed wife, one afternoon finds a note under the windshield wiper of his SUV that asks him to make a life or death decision (other people' . . .

Prey is the latest tech thriller from legend Michael Crichton. Prey follows, in first person, the exploits of scientist Jack Forman, an unemployed software engineer. Forman suspects foul play when his wife, the vice-president of Xymos Corporation starts acting strangely. They ask for Jack's help as they've lost control of some of the nano-particle swarms that they were working on and they need him to help bring them under control. Without giving to much of the plot away, Jack and some othe . . .

I read this book because the synopsis on the back sounded good and it was also given a good review by Stephen King. Two couples on holiday in Mexico, accompanied by two foreign friends they'd met on their travels, go in search of a group of archaeologists in the Mexican jungle. Despite the warning they receive from the ominous locals they step onto a vine covered mound. Once on there they find the locals will not let them off. As they make it to the top of the mound the find the remains of th . . .