Book Review, The Face - Dean Koontz ***** Ethan Truman, ex-cop and now head of security for Hollywood's biggest star, is a troubled man. The death of his wife six years ago still haunts him and colours every relationship he has, his best friend lies in coma after being savagely beaten by a drugs gang, he doesn't really like his boss and hates the way his employers ten year son is treated. Then there's the boxes, six of them, thrown over the walls of the Hollywood mansion in the dead of night. Each contains a cryptic gift, an apple sewn up containing a glass eye, a pickling jar full of men's foreskins, somebody is trying to send a message to Ethan's boss. Koontz introduces one of his nastiest villains in this novel, Corky Laputa the dedicated anarchist with his random poisonings, drug handouts and pet killings is horrible but captivating. As with some previous novels I feel that Koontz now writes thrillers so well that he hardly needs to bother with the supernatural elements at all. When Ethan starts having odd moments of deja vu, and a previously dead man gets up and walks away it's good, but the novel was flowing so well anyway I would have been just as happy with a serial killer/nutter novel. Good stuff though, 670+ pages in paperback, it is one of those unputdownable books, I ripped through it in a couple of days, eager to see what mayhem Corky could conjure, or whether ten year old Fric could escape the clutches of Moloch.