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Dragonfly Paperback – Import, January 1, 1979

by K.R. Dwyer (Author), Dean Koontz (Author)

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The Committee, a group of powerful CIA fanatics, has friends in the Mafia, the Congress, in every important department of the government up to and including the President's Oval Office. They are funded by a reclusive billionaire, and they have always gotten what they wanted. Now they want everything.

Enraged by the Chinese-American détente, the Committe conceives a sinister plot to destroy vital portions of the Chinese population. Their weapon is a Chinese youth (code name: Dragonfly) who has been surgically implanted with a deadly virus. He has no memory of what has been done to him, yet he walks around, a human time bomb, set to explode at the right moment and release the plague within him, killing hundreds of thousands of his countrymen. He must be found.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sphere; New edition (January 1, 1979)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0722131496
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0722131497
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.9 ounces

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Dean Koontz, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirits of their goldens, Trixie and Anna.
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Dean Koontz is my favorite!

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2022

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I thought I had every Dean Koontz book, including all the ones under his pen names, but had missed this one. I am so please to have it to add it to my collection, and enjoyed reading it.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2007

K.R. Dwyer is actually a pen name for Dean Koontz (the initials, KRD, are Koontz's initials backwards). This is an unremarkable, but somewhat enjoyable short novel that Koontz did early in his career. The plot centers around some right-wing extremists who are intent on starting a conflict with China using an device carrying a biochemical agent that is implanted in a Chinese national. There is a lot of hypnotizing and off the cuff political theorizing, which is fine but pretty silly when it comes down to it. The characters are shallow, but the novel is more about solving the mystery and exploring the political intrigue than about understanding and humanizing its characters.

It's a fine book to spend an afternoon or two breezing through, but clearly not something you should go out of your way to find or pay more than a dollar or two for. It is interesting to see Koontz trying some different genres before he was became famous and wealthy writing horror/sci fi.