False Memory

On the heels of his critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers FEAR NOTHING and SEIZE THE NIGHT, Dean Koontz stuns readers with a deeply sinister tale of a true-life psychological condition shockingly close to home: autophobia-fear of oneself. Martie Rhodes is a young wife and successful video-game designer. Then one morning she experiences a sudden and inexplicable fear, a fleeting but disquieting terror of...her own shadow. Later she realizes she is terrified to look in the mirror and confront the reflection of her own face. As these traumatic episodes build, the lives of Martie and her husband, Dustin, change drastically. Desperate to discover the reasons for his wife's sudden descent into mental chaos, Dusty takes Martie to the reknown therapist who has been treating her best friend, and begins a frantic search for clues. As he comes closer to the shocking truth, Dusty himself afflicted with a condition even more fearsome than Martie's. No fan of Dean Koontz or of classic psychological suspense will want to miss this extraordinary novel of the human mind's capacity to torment-and destroy-itself. Copyright 1999 by Dean Koontz. Published by Bantam Books.

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