He'll pay anything.įrom its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is a thriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist, every shock, every revelation.until it lets you go, unmistakably changed. To prove that they are serious, the kidnappers direct Mitch to look at the dog walker across the street. He's confident that Mitch will find a way. In this novel, The Husband, Mitchell Rafferty, a landscape contractor, receives a phone call telling him that his wife Holly has been kidnapped, and unless he can come up with two million dollars in a very short time, she will be killed. The caller doesn't care that Mitch runs a small two-man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum.

He has Mitch's wife and he's named the price for her safe return. Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. Dean Koontz first edition book The Husband Now Available Choose from over 50000 books from the premier collectible book site Dean Koontz Book Signing. On an ordinary afternoon, an ordinary man, a gardener of modest means. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER We have your wife. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. You can get her back for two million cash. What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel ever, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself-and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever. With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes-and the pulse rate-higher than any other author.

The Husband by Dean Koontz