A man and a woman--she is a figure of mystery,
he is a mystery even to himself--meet by chance
in a Santa Monica bar. Suddenly--first separately,
and then together--they are fleeing the long
arm of a clandestine and increasingly powerful
renegade government agency: the woman hunted
for the information she possesses, the man mistaken
as her comrade in a burgeoning resistance movement.

The architect of the chase is a man of uncommon
madness and cruelty, ruthess, possibly psychotic,
and equipped with a vast technological arsenal:
untraceable access to the government's electronic
information banks, its surveillance systems, weaponry,
and material. He is the brazen face of an insidiously 
fascistic future.  And he is virtually unstoppable.

But he has never before come up against the likes of
his current quarry. Both of them--survivors of singularly
horrific pasts--have lived hidden, nomadic, solitary lives.
Both have learned to expect "savagery as surely as sunrises 
and sunsets". Both have long been emboldened by their
experiences to fight with reckless courage for their
own freedom. 

Now, they are plunged into a struggle for the freedom
of their country, and for the sanctity of their own lives.
Once again, in DARK RIVERS OF THE HEART, Dean Koontz has
given us an electrifying thriller, a feat of the imagination
that steers us just along the razor edge of a familiar,
terrifying reality.  It is the work of a master suspense
storyteller writing at the pinnacle of his form.