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Name: Watchers
Rating: 4.19 (171495 reviews)
Author: Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz January 1, 1987

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They escape from a secret government: two mutant creatures, both changed utterly from the animals they once were. And no one who encounters them will ever be the same again:

A lonely widower; a ruthless assassin; a beautiful woman; a government agent.

Drawn together in a deadly hunt, all four are inexorably propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond human imagining.

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