Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein)
by Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson
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Author: Dean Koontz, Kevin J. AndersonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-07-28
ISBN: 0553593323
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: A very good mixture of the supernatural with the natural
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first of a three part trilogy imagining that Mary Shelly based her classic Frankenstein novel upon facts, but got the facts wrong. Dr. Frankenstein and the monster he created are still alive after two hundred years. The doctor is still performing evil acts while his monster is trying to do good.
Koontz is an excellent writer. His books, like this one, frequently mix the supernatural with the natural, and the later might be, as it is here, a criminal case. Dr. Victor Frankenstein is calling himself Victor Helios, an irony, as if he is bringing the sun to earth. Although well over two hundred years old, he looks fit and in his thirties. He is extremely rich and has been accepted in the level of society. He has been making more than a thousand new race people, with two heart, who have no emotions, who if hurt heal within seconds, and has integrated them into all parts of society, including the police and clergy. His goal is to replace the old human race with his new race, beings that will do his bidding. Yet, despite two hundred years of practice and constant improvements, the new race beings have problems, especially their inability to feel happy.
Helios created for himself a female, more beautiful than a human female, who does whatever he wills. But she slurps her soup, reads poetry, and aggravates her creator. She is Erica IV. The prior Ericas also failed to satisfy Helios completely.
Helios does not know that the first monster he created is still alive. He calls himself Deucalion, after the son of Prometheus in the ancient Greek myth. Prometheus was the being who, according to some versions of the myth, created people and gave them fire. While Zeus was bad, Prometheus was good. Deucalion is living in a monastery. When he hears that Dr. Frankenstein/Helios is still alive, he leaves the monastery and comes to New Orleans seeking a way to stop Frankenstein. But he has a problem. Frankenstein engineered him and his other creations to obey him and never harm him. He needs help to defeat the doctor.
There are two serial killers loose in New Orleans. One is killing females after sedating them, and taking their outer body part, such as hands and eyes. The other is killing men and taking their inner body parts, such as hearts. The second only sedated one victim.
Two detectives are involved. Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. They are sexually attracted to each other, but O'Connor doesn't want to mix sex and work. She is a driven woman. He makes wisecracks repeatedly and adds humor to the novel. She has a brother who is autistic.
Randall VI is the sixth autistic creation by Helios. Helios wants to see if he can use autistic people like robots who would perform tasks repeatedly without ever getting tired. Randal VI sees a picture of O'Connor's brother smiling and wants to meet him and see if he can learn to live a happy life from him.
Can Deucalion beat Helios? Are the serial murders done by Helios's new race? Can the two detectives solve the serial murders? Is O'Connor's brother in trouble?
Summary of Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein)
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of . . .Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion?s path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O?Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire race of killers who are much more?and less?than human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Helios?once known as Frankenstein.
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