Chula Vista

What? Might want to go back and re-read things.

Lightning is an outlier for Koontz - I've read too many of his to list here. You didn't list Watchers - which is his best work imo.
Hollywood even made a god awful adaption of it.




Strangers is not only longer than most of his stuff (526 pgs.) but it's ridiculously overstuffed with main characters - who you have to deal with the minutia of each of their back stories before getting to the meat of the story.

Primary characters

Dominick Corvaisis, author
Ginger Weiss, surgeon
Ernie Block, U.S.M.C. (ret.), and his wife, Faye Block
Brendan Cronin, priest and curate
Jack Twist, former Army Ranger and P.O.W., professional thief
Jorja Monatella, formerly Rykoff, Las Vegas casino cocktail waitress
Alan Rykoff, Jorja's estranged husband
Marcie Rykoff, their young daughter
Sandy Sarver, diner waitress, and her husband, Ned Sarver, short-order cook
Leland Falkirk, U.S. Army Colonel
Parker Faine, artist
Stefan Wycazik, parish priest

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”