Using stem cells, “organic” silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumans-the perfect melding of flesh and machine. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the future-he’s ready to populate it. In Lost Souls, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our times-a story of revenge, redemption, and a new invitation to apocalypse. Book five, "The Dead Town," followed in May 2011.#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timeless-and terrifying-creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. It debuted at #7 on the New York Times Hardcover Best Seller list.
The book was released in hardback on 15 June 2010. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they could not have imagined. Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison Victor’s engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko and the original Victor’s first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed-and tested-by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on.
In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. It is up to five people to prove him wrong.
With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress can’t find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him. Lost Souls is the fourth novel of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series.
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