These characters, explain Rainking, have been “welcomed into our world, by someone who’s been consumed by such an intense desire for power…” They name them “Screamers,” who have six fingers that resemble tentacles, with gray and sinuous-like talons. They battle aliens who have come to destroy the world. In a dramatic and tension-filled scene, the trio is chased by the agents using drones and heavily armored military tanks. Rainking explains to Quicksilver that it was no accident he came to their rescue: “Several sequences in our genome are not human.” Both were born fatherless, had unique visual and sensory powers, and both shared a unique DNA. Quicksilver, with his intuition, rescues Bridget Rainking, who also possesses similar intuitive powers, along with her grandfather Sparky, who has a past he’s reluctant to discuss. Once again, a magnetic force pushes him toward a deserted farm house where the agents are holding two people hostage. Mystified as to why anyone would threaten him, Quicksilver determines it may be connected to his earlier highway rescuers. Days later, he is surrounded by menacing American military-type agents who are referred to call as “Gestapo light.” He escapes, but only after killing both of them with his car. He’s content with his life until a magnetic force draws him to a remote place where he finds a valuable coin. Three-day-old Quinn Quicksilver is abandoned on an Arizona highway, rescued by three men and is raised in a nunnery until he is nineteen when he gets a job with a local magazine. And, as is typical for Koontz, whose books carry moralist messages on good and evil and seek the best of humanity, this one is no exception. Before reading Dean Koontz’s new fantasy crime novel, “Quicksilver,” be prepared to suspend reality and embrace characters with superpowers.
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