Dean Koontz first uses mystery in the main characters life. In the beginning we find out that the main character losses consciousness for seven minutes and does not remember at all what happen except for the lines " I need, I need, I need, I need," on his tape recorder. This is a big mystery to the reader and for the main character because he has no idea what happened to him and neither does the reader. There is also the part of the stranger how is a mystery to everyone. This is a man who does what he is programmed to do what he is told. You have no idea who he is and where he from, but all we know is that he looks just like the main character. Which is a mystery and asks the questions how? In the book there is a part that says,

In conclusion, Dean Koontz has an amazing talent of keeping things to him self until the end of the story and surprising the reader. I’m not sure if this would actually happen in real life, but I’m sure it could somehow. I kind of thought this was going to be a boring book from the beginning of it, but it picked up after a while.

" Daddy wasn’t Daddy. He had Daddy’s blue eyes, Daddy’s dark brown hair, he sounded like Daddy; he was a dead-ringer for the Martin Stillwater pictured on the dust jackets of his books," . Which mean that when the main character's daughters were to see him they would think he was there father. It is also a mystery that you don’t really know if the stranger was the real Martin Stillwater or if he was just his twin. There is a story that the main character wrote for his daughters entitled "Santa’s Evil Twin." This is very weird to the reader because the story is somewhat based on what happens to the main character and his family, and that the main character doesn’t realize the connection until the end.

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