Dean Koontz has been called "America's most popular 
suspense novelist," but that only begins to describe
the rich variety and endless invention that characterize
his work. Critics hail his impeccable craft and the
artistry that has inspired the devotion of millions of
fans around the world. He is unique among contemporary
writers, venturing far beyond traditional boundaries to
explore our deepest fears and most transcendent aspirations.
Now, in From The Corner Of His Eye, Koontz brings together
his most powerful themes to draw readers into a spell-binding
world made by a master at the top of his form--a story rich
in triumph and tragedy, joy and terror, love, hate, and
profound meaning, played out by perhaps the most unforget-
table cast of characters he has yet created. 

Bartholomew Lampion is born in Bright Beach, California,
on a day of tragedy and terror, when the lives of everyone
in his family are changed forever. Remarkable events accompany
his birth, and everyone agrees that his unusual eyes are
the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day,
a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a
mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He doesn't know who Bartholomew
is, but he embarks on a search that will become <BR>the purpose
of his life. If ever he finds the right Bartholomew, he will
deal mercilessly with him. 

And in San Francisco, a girl is born, the result of a violent 
rape. Her survival is miraculous, and her destiny is mysteriously
linked to the fates of Barty and the man who stalks him. At the
age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons reluctantly
remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As the
growing boy copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy,
his mother, an exceptional woman, counsels him that all things
happen for a reason, that there is meaning even in his suffering,
and that he will affect the lives of people yet unknown to him
in ways startling and profound.

At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it,
why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds
results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping
suspense, and high adventure. His mother once told him that
every person's life has an effect on every other person's, in
often unknowable ways, and Barty's eventful life indeed entwines
with others in ways that will astonish and move everyone who reads
his story.
 
People magazine has said that Dean Koontz has the "power to
scare the daylights out of us." In this, perhaps the most
thrilling, suspenseful, and emotionally powerful work of his
critically acclaimed career, Koontz does that and far more.
He has created a compulsive page-turner that will have you at
the edge of your seat, a narrative tour de force that will
change the way you yourself look at the world.