Intensity - Large Print Author:Dean Koontz Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friendâÃÂÃÂs family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed... more » âÃÂÃÂhomicidal adventurer,âÃÂàVess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.
Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out aliveâÃÂÃÂuntil, by chance, she learns the identity of VessâÃÂÃÂs next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girlâæas moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.« less