Moonlight Bay, California. A safe, secluded small town
that is at its most picturesque in the gentle night-
times that inspired its name. Now, somewhere in the 
night, children are disappearing. From their homes. From 
the streets. The police cannot be trusted to solve the 
mystery because in Moonlight Bay the police work their 
hardest to conceal crimes and silence the complaints 
rather than catch the perpetrators. They were long ago 
corrupted by a greater authority, hidden behind the 
supposedly shuttered walls of the adjacent military 
base, Fort Wyvern.

When he sets out to find the missing five-year-old son 
of a former sweetheart, Christopher Snow believes the 
lost children are still alive. He is convinced the 
disappearances have everything to do with the catastro-
phic effects of secret research conducted deep within 
Fort Wyvern. To keep those secrets, extremely violent 
and powerful forces are willing to conceal even the most 
heinous crimes.

But Christopher Snow has developed a secret advantage of 
his own. His rare genetic disorder--xeroderma 
pigmentosum, XP--leaves him dangerously vulnerable to 
light. Forced to live in the shadows, Christopher Snow 
knows the night world better than anyone, even those 
adversaries who seem at one with the darkness.

Never before in Dean Koontz's phenomenal writing career 
has he created a character quite like Christopher Snow--
a creation so complex, so fascinating that the author 
has felt compelled to return to him. Readers of Fear
Nothing already know why. Those who meet him for the 
first time in Seize the Night will soon joins millions 
of others whose imaginations have been touched by this 
unique character and the extra-ordinarily eerie world 
of Moonlight Bay.