“I would start writing a scene,” Koontz explains, “and it would hit me that something in the scene, some little twist of a moment, came from my father. He says his father was a violent alcoholic who made life hell for his wife and son. Koontz is drawn to exploring the way our memories, or lack thereof, protect us from the truth. Along with brainwashing and repressed memories, amnesia turns up again and again in Koontz’s milieu. It’s an escape from something he doesn’t want to know.”Īmnesia is to thrillers what evil twins are to soap operas. “While I thought it was interesting that, yes, he has amnesia,” Koontz says, “he believes he had it engineered. The protagonist can quickly memorize the details for his next mission, but he doesn’t remember anything about his own past, including his name. The first is “ In the Heart of the Fire (Nameless Book 1).” The stories are linked by a man without a past on a mission to take down criminals who are exceptionally evil: kidnappers, pedophiles and serial murderers. “Nameless” isn’t a novel, but a collection of six short thrillers.
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