A bloodthirsty sheriff is terrorizing a small Texas town where justice has been buried with his victims. Until Nameless arrives-a vigilante whose past is a mystery and whose future is written in blood.
Anyone who crosses Sheriff Russell Soakes is dead, missing, or warned. One of them is a single mother trying to protect her children but bracing herself for the worst. Nameless fears the outcome. He's seen it in his visions. Now it's time to teach the depraved Soakes a lesson in fear. But in turning predators into prey, will Nameless unearth a few secrets of his own?
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes In the Heart of the Fire, part of Nameless, a riveting collection of short stories about a vigilante nomad, stripped of his memories and commissioned to kill. Follow him in each story, which can be read or listened to in a single sitting.
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[The sky is the blue of a birthing blanket, the day newborn and filled with the light of innocence, when the air brakes of the bus whistle softly, waking him]***
(Amazon Original Stories, 12 November 2019, 62 pages, ebook, borrowed from @AmazonKindle #PrimeReading)
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Koontz is one of my favourite writers and has been for decades. I stumbled upon his work as a young teenager around the same time I discovered Stephen King. I raced through this little thriller and really enjoyed it. Nameless is an interesting, perplexing character. I hope his secrets will be unearthed across the remaining five stories in the series. What's his real name? Who is guiding him? Are his actions justified? I look forward to reading Nameless's next adventure.
