Just when you thought he couldn't top himself, Dean
Koontz has done it again with a novel that will chill
you to the bone and demonstrate why he has earned the
distinction "America's most popular suspense novelist."
A Dean Koontz novel is not just an unforgettable read
--it is a life-changing experience.  As  anyone who has
ever read one of his novels knows, he creates atmospheric
settings, believable characters, and all-too-plausible
situations through which he explores the terror that we
all suspect lurks just out of sight in our ordinary lives.
In this unforgettable novel he weaves a tale of madness,
suspense, love, and terror from a startling <BR>and true
-life psychological condition so close tto home it will
stun even his most seasoned readers: Autophobia--fear
of oneself.

Martie Rhodes is a young wife, a video game designer,
and a compassionate woman who takes her agoraphobic
friend Carol to therapy sessions. Carol is so afraid
of leaving her apartment that the trips are grim ordeals
for both women--but bonding experiences as well.

Then one morning Martie experiences a sudden fear of
her own, a brief but disquieting terror of--her shadow.
The episode is over so quickly, it leaves her shaken
but amused. Then, as she is about to check her makeup,
she realizes she is terrified to look in the mirror
and confront her own face.

As the episodes of this traumatic condition--autophobia
--build, the lives of Martie and her hussband, Dustin,
change drastically. Frantic to discover the trigger for
her descent into hell, Dustin begins to look into the
background of a respected therapist. As he comes closer
to the truth about this strange and troubled "healer,"
Dustin finds himself afflicted with a condition even
more bizarre and terrifying than Martie's.

No fan of Dean Koontz or of classic psychological suspense
will want to miss this extraordinary novel <BR>of the human
mind's capacity to torment--and destroy--itself. In False
Memory, Dean Koontz has created a novel that will stay in
your memory long after the final page is turned--a story not
only of gripping fear but also of the power of love and
friendship.  Once more Koontz reveals why he has, as People
put it, the "power to scare the daylights out of us."