Dean Koontz&39;s unique talent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul is nowhere more evident than in this latest suspense ainst the ultimate deadline If there were speed li excitement allowed in one novel, "Velocity" would break them all Get ready for the ride of your life Velocity Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life But that is about to change One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car "If you don&39;t take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work You have four hours to decide The choice is yours " It seems like a sick joke, and Bill&39;s friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too His advice to Bill is to go hoet about it Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been co blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it&39;s Bill&39;s fault: he didn&39;t convince the police to get involved Now he&39;s got another note, another deadline, another ulti in the balance Suddenly Bill&39;s average, seely innocuous life takes on the dihtrowing tighter, and the killer beco bolder and crueler with every co knowledge that he alone has the power of life and death over a psychopath&39;s innocent victiood and evil is intensely personal Until thewords of all are: "The choice is yours"