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Breathless
Dean Koontz
The stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Relentless
In the Colorado mountains something miraculous comes into the life of Grady Adams, a strong, gentle man whose past experiences have alienated him from the modern world and driven him to live in the wilds. When he sees it, he knows that one of Nature's great mysteries has been revealed to him.
He takes his friend Cammy Rivers to bear witness to the phenomenal presence. As a scientist, she is stunned and awed. She emails photos to colleagues in far places to try and find a name for the wonderful beings. Before they know what is happening, Homeland Security has quarantined the wilderness around them and sent in assorted scientists to track down and 'neutralize' the threat to the known world.
Grady and Cammy aren't sticking around to be mere witnesses to this atrocity – determined to prevent it, they go on the run, and a pursuit of hair-raising suspense is under way, with no happy ending in prospect…
Breathless is a unique and riveting thriller from the master of suspense.
DEAN KOONTZ
Breathless
Dedication (#ulink_041c35d2-393f-5749-8242-53f6f2a25ab8)
To Aesop, twenty-six centuries late and with apologies for the length.
And as always and forever to Gerda
Epigraph (#ulink_e6f97c4b-ef4d-5eb7-a5ee-35fab17635b8)
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
–G.K. Chesterton
Contents
Cover (#uffafddd0-0570-5c76-9c49-3c20f4c38942)
Title Page (#u63121e27-d10d-5f25-a140-6a312b9b7add)
Dedication (#ud5bca422-e060-5e51-b9db-5a1fd51a29e2)
Epigraph (#ub7f3ec05-e28b-556d-831a-ba1c1d109339)
Part One: Life and Death (#u7f9d19be-453e-560d-ac3e-876d893a72f6)
Chapter One (#u8d492b2f-75fd-553d-bd09-b353ef57f058)
Chapter Two (#u48cdb26f-f74c-569d-8219-67a765b0b41a)
Chapter Three (#uf34ccf37-b815-5d05-9f2d-b99c4778259a)
Chapter Four (#u3a0630ec-8adc-5f15-892c-a6a399a9e122)
Chapter Five (#ud743b93c-5a43-5068-a874-4bc925723e9a)
Chapter Six (#uc95645e0-d859-5494-8ae3-1da7d2d31671)
Chapter Seven (#u3d092f95-1ade-5740-b608-a50d38bf3a60)
Chapter Eight (#u5c8a9526-4325-5f3a-badb-0c9ef719f078)
Chapter Nine (#u1241f21b-1c50-54fb-8911-8a94ef0140ef)
Chapter Ten (#ua577ae57-0db0-5f11-99d2-1a82d607ebc3)
Chapter Eleven (#u1f7d9c4d-f567-5c4e-9288-763820b80909)
Chapter Twelve (#uc24be9d1-4288-5823-a193-e02db892b430)
Chapter Thirteen (#u1638c43b-00dd-5ac0-b10a-8ac86623f126)
Chapter Fourteen (#ua329ea16-e76d-5bb9-899f-61ab5b0686a4)
Chapter Fifteen (#udbd3f66c-27e1-5b99-9e8e-46a2c9243ead)
Chapter Sixteen (#u0fff36d5-de00-57e3-a75b-22dd73fe6a15)
Chapter Seventeen (#u0b42ee2e-ea05-5637-a46b-9ac3c2ea26f7)
Chapter Eighteen (#u7c53d106-fb45-5db3-9b21-b0420618947f)
Chapter Nineteen (#ude7a8565-81b9-5c12-b88b-cf8360c1e81d)
Chapter Twenty (#u406f1014-5daa-5a37-97af-c699b99cd192)
Chapter Twenty-One (#ud713033c-6bab-5dcc-9b60-7fff50084854)
Chapter Twenty-Two (#u311f5364-466e-55f1-8fa1-155718fb7d8c)
Chapter Twenty-Three (#uedca54c2-2621-52d8-bc9d-2b329a89e90c)
Chapter Twenty-Four (#ub24ee015-0d8c-524f-981e-afcd127fc339)
Chapter Twenty-Five (#u562347d6-f026-5a54-8bed-259cd7de632d)
Chapter Twenty-Six (#ue22d6a83-969e-5e1d-bae0-101355960eb9)
Chapter Twenty-Seven (#ueaf04bce-1e79-5bc2-a454-13cba4656c0c)
Chapter Twenty-Eight (#ue6d5a8c6-cec7-5f78-b878-9ef8871e4270)
Chapter Twenty-Nine (#u9d5ec2e2-d0a2-5a4a-b956-c3fb95d20147)
Chapter Thirty (#u0b05033e-ee86-5c3f-9d9a-5396183444f9)
Chapter Thirty-One (#ud2db749e-3510-5c1e-a209-3e133a775045)
Chapter Thirty-Two (#u46bad46d-6026-5973-a406-e37c301805e4)
Chapter Thirty-Three (#u4154fd5f-7379-5b0f-a2e5-d93986b53922)
Chapter Thirty-Four (#u0717f636-5006-5459-974e-0718278fa22c)
Chapter Thirty-Five (#u18737eb0-60a3-5bb9-8131-25d160cd63e5)
Chapter Thirty-Six (#u7e53a78e-8466-5561-a8a8-b45b01167925)
Chapter Thirty-Seven (#ub36e477f-104d-5a8d-ae72-69b246c46f5e)
Chapter Thirty-Eight (#u5559cffe-cdeb-5a0a-853b-be2978d24c0a)
Chapter Thirty-Nine (#ufcd8d1be-8b01-5500-949c-be84a262c176)
Chapter Forty (#uf74f8112-d8d7-5893-b164-9f1756fba093)
Chapter Forty-One (#uc037b744-cc1a-549a-a344-6b88b726ee73)
Chapter Forty-Two (#uad6020ff-d06d-500e-9a05-8889ded28d33)
Chapter Forty-Three (#uf90130ae-61cc-5840-ab49-5d174e83e376)
Chapter Forty-Four (#ua4904229-6f2f-5e8f-a890-89aa18e1183b)
Chapter Forty-Five (#u73cc7c55-4b44-5d7f-bbea-fc9ef2b56de9)
Chapter Forty-Six (#u03b29e36-c5fa-5986-8315-566a8a0bb089)
Chapter Forty-Seven (#ub523952b-cf31-530f-bc65-7ca8a1dfae76)
Chapter Forty-Eight (#u17562bfe-f3bc-5276-b712-f54de9509446)
Chapter Forty-Nine (#u4fcbdb56-e16f-5ae0-a7dc-0d92badd5bf2)
Chapter Fifty (#u56c3e6e2-86e3-5c64-8f2f-7e157b5cfcbb)
Part Two: Death in Life (#u0547026d-767c-5a63-a5c6-82e2a26bbe0e)
Chapter Fifty-One (#uaf567589-33b9-59bb-906c-5350db9195f8)
Chapter Fifty-Two (#ua2a88c8b-64de-5993-b98c-23aedd2138cd)
Chapter Fifty-Three (#u3a959c7a-0f08-5f03-b587-87e1b32cd589)
Chapter Fifty-Four (#u5fcd91d4-d3ea-509c-a6d5-25d111bfbff0)
Chapter Fifty-Five (#u9dbb3d52-49eb-56bd-a102-86d964726aeb)
Chapter Fifty-Six (#u936d22c5-8b1d-5b98-83ad-349674670721)
Chapter Fifty-Seven (#u6f8b628b-1431-55b7-bd0b-f53a113839b4)
Chapter Fifty-Eight (#u7b0c58c6-50ee-5f75-aca9-c590c28d947c)
Chapter Fifty-Nine (#uaa3519d9-90e9-5435-be10-d2081c7a978a)
Chapter Sixty (#u141cbd7d-a474-5fdc-8441-95f37cc7b190)
Chapter Sixty-One (#u0c3bef19-a88e-5b4a-af9a-fef30457e14b)
Chapter Sixty-Two (#u62454a84-e148-539d-946d-191a3ef39bbf)
Chapter Sixty-Three (#u9fc78194-82c8-53c3-9363-fc07f70aaea3)
Part Three: Life in Death (#u8f28bb44-6a54-5e84-9aec-338b68d4694f)
Chapter Sixty-Four (#u44abe88e-e98f-501a-a3a1-4877b38d9a64)
Chapter Sixty-Five (#uab75bec4-ac37-5d66-b07e-c854294f94ca)
Chapter Sixty-Six (#uf58b9c7d-0f0f-5ad4-ade5-babf04ed6ddd)
Chapter Sixty-Seven (#uc34b2aab-faaa-5b69-8b1f-d1630dd370e7)
Chapter Sixty-Eight (#u74350c66-37db-50ae-99fc-99aa3574fc19)
Chapter Sixty-Nine (#u91ced85f-c4fe-53e5-a98e-3137466effcf)
Chapter Seventy (#ub34a7640-aa25-505e-a4fc-c6130ca124ea)
Chapter Seventy-One (#uf3af23ca-a544-59d5-a220-0499a113a0b1)
Chapter Seventy-Two (#u3a2fd906-e945-5382-b60b-8ad7a705596f)
About the Author (#u96350759-fb6c-5c14-a383-656893814152)
Also by the Author (#ue83eacc3-5be1-5f3b-9273-1efcb4ef5838)
Copyright (#u482bb23c-03f8-5f4d-b084-9000a23cfa78)
About the Publisher (#u93419178-e5ac-5388-97df-ea72422da730)
PART ONE Life and Death (#ulink_14ac1e40-c8c5-51a2-a19e-f75ae9e17894)
Chapter One (#ulink_f5b4051d-2394-59eb-a891-a4e802b8272e)
