About this title: A top-secret government laboratory creates two unnatural entities. One is a terrifying monster; the other, a highly intelligent dog, is the only one who can stop it. Now both are on the loose.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780425107461ISBN:0425107469
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 483 p. Audience: General/trade. Signs of wear on front and back cover edges, otherwise in giid shape for reading. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Books, New York
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780425107461ISBN:0425107469
Description: Good. No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. The book is very solid with lightly browned pages. The cover has moderate shelf & edge wear. The spine has several shallow creases. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780425107461ISBN:0425107469
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Wear on cover and edges. No marks. Tight binding. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 483 p. Audience: General/trade. "His best story yet! "--Publishers Weekly read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780425107461ISBN:0425107469
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, shelf wear to cover, creases on spine, light slant to book, 1" tear on bottom of front cover along spine, stk #2160i8. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 483 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. 0425107469 Good condition paperback book, some creases to spine, some edge/corner rubs, may have corner crease, small edge tear or spine slant, a good book for reading. Shop & Save With US. read more
Description: Good. 0425107469 Good condition paperback book, 1st printing, clean pages, No writing in book, some creases to spine, some edge and corner rubs, this book is Good! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780425107461ISBN:0425107469
Description: Very Good. 0425107469 Mass Market Paperback, previously read used book in very good condition, may have slight worn corners and some shelf wea..._ read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780425107461ISBN:0425107469
Description: Good. 0425107469 Mass Market Paperback, previously read used book in good condition, varying degrees of shelf wear, some spine creases, ..._ read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780425107461ISBN:0425107469
Description: Good. 0425107469 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in good condition, varying degrees of shelf wear, some spine creases, m..._ read more
"Watchers was a great thriller and extremely well written.
Two beings were created in a lab with near human intelligence. One is a golden retriever normal in every way other than his intelligence. The other is called The Outsider. A frightful being resembling no animal or man. Both beings escape from the lab and are free in the wild.
A man named Travis finds the dog and soon learns of its secret, however he is unaware that the dog still has more secrets to reveal to it. Along the way, Travis and the dog, newly named Einstein, meet a woman named Nora. Nora has been sheltered all her life and Travis befriends her and finds their friendship quickly grows into something more.
In the meantime, The Outsider is still out there. The NSA are searching for both The Outsider and the dog which means that Travis and Nora have to watch themselves carefully.
Without giving anything else away, I'll just say that I completely enjoyed this book. Animal stories always hit me right in the heart and Einstein, with his human-like intelligence, is completely endearing. I found myself reading the book at a quick pace, always wanting more and always thinking about where I'd just left off when I wasn't able to read. There are very few boring moments in the book.
The only subplot I could have done without was that of a man named Vince who kills the scientists who created The Outsider and the dog and believes that taking lives insures his own immortality. The entire subplot is almost ridiculous in its ending.
If you're an animal lover or dog lover, this book is a definite read. You will find yourself looking after Einstein and thinking about him long after you put the book down."
"Dean Koontz is master story teller!! I'll admit that I wished this dog Einstein is MY dog! I'd be thrilled to death to hyave this dog who can "talk" to you via scrabble tiles! I don't want to ruin this story but... YOU got to read this and turn this book into family classic if you want to. I will keep this book and encourage my kids to read it and then encourage their future children to read it too!"
"I absolutely LOVED this book!!!! I bought it because it had a Golden Retriever on the cover and since I love Dogs I was hoping I would enjoy it. I have to say that this book is probably one of my most favorites books I have ever read!!! I laughed, I cried, I was scared (which is rare) and I was very intrigued through the whole book! Great characters and the story was very believing. I couldn't believe that this book came out 20 years ago. I highly recommend it!"
"This book starts off with a deppressed man named Travis trying ot find a purpose in life. Eventually he finds a dog in the woods with out a collar and takes him home and he also meet a woman named Nora who's been sheltered her whole life and was just recently left on her own. The dog has peculiar ways of showing his intellegence and rationalizing skills, and when Travis realizes the dog's potential he created a system to speak to the dog. This leads to a shocking fact about the dog( who was named Einstein) being revealed. If you want to know more, you'll have to read it, oh yeah, did I meantion the demon beast thing? oh yeah, there's on of those. Anyway I really enjoyed the book, there are so many details I left out, so don't think I been spoiled the book for you!"
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