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Dean Koontz can be counted upon to set us up with a good story that revolves around the age old conflict of good vs evil. He hasn’t let us down with his newest offering Elsewhere. We have a mother who went missing seven years ago. She just up and left. There’s a dad, Jeffy Coltrane and his daughter Amity. They live a simple existence in a small town. The dad repairs vintage Bakelite radios and resells them at auctions for huge profits. Everything’s simple – until – One of the homeless men living in the woods nearby gives Jeffy a package to hold for him with the warning to not to open, don’t look inside. “Better you don’t know. It’s the incessant need to know more and more and yet still more, to know everything this is the fast track to destruction.” Inside this box, he said was the “Key To Everything”, even valuing it at seventy-six billion dollars. Yes, Billion-with-a-B. Furthermore, claiming the fate of humanity now lay in Jeffy’s hands. And he left. This is NOT A SPOILER. It’s the start of the book. Of course we all guess that Jeffy opens the box. It’s in an attempt to hide the contents, the key to everything, from the black op helicopters and SUV’s that show up the next day. An agent claiming to be from the NSA searches the house and asks if they know Dr. Edwin Harkenback. Yep, they’re looking for Spooky Ed. The story is unraveling just as predicted. Well, at this point you get the gist of where the tale is starting. And Dean usually finds a place for an iconic loving dog but he seems to be missing here. But there’s Snowball. Is he a red herring or a white mouse? We have a good man, a good daughter, a good mouse, a missing mother, a dastardly black ops operative and Spooky Ed of unknown background. Let the adventure begin.