Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong
Moonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris has
xeroderma pigmentosum XP--a light-sensitivity so severe that he
cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit
room, cannot sit at a computer. Chris''s natural element is the
night, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in Moonlight
Bay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape his
own--roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in the
moonlight, exploring while most people sleep. But Chris''s brilliant
mother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident 2 years ago, and
as the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer;
Chris''s protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris as
he is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoon
sun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his father
tells Chris he is "sorry" and that Chris should "fear
nothing"--cryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to. Steven
Snow''s body is removed to the hospital basement for transport to
the funeral homecrematorium, and when Chris goes downstairs for a
final moment of farewell, he witnesses a frightening and
clandestine encounter: the funeral director and another man Chris
doesn''t recognize are substituting the body of a hitchhiker for
Steven Snow''s body-which is being taken not to the crematorium but
to some secret destination. For Chris, this scene is the first
intimation of a conspiracy that he will come to realize envelopes
many of his townspeople. His parents knew of it and wanted to
protect Chris from it. His best friend has had hints of something
wrong because of the frightening nocturnal visitors that have come
to his beachhouse. And the first person to try to explain to Chris
what''s going on--and warn him about the special danger he himself
is in--will be hideously murdered. In the 24 hours this book
encompasses, Christopher Snow will find out that, sheltered though
he''s been, he has the soul of a fighter and an adventurer. By the
end of the book he will have killed a man, will have discovered the
role his own mother played in the birth of the conspiracy, will
have come to recognize the extraordinary guardians that, unknown to
him, have watched over him for years. He will realize that some
people hate him, others revere him, and neither his own life nor
those of anyone he knows will ever be the same.
關於作者：
Dean Koontz the author of many #1 New York Times
bestsellers, lives with his wife, Gerda, and the enduring spirit of
their golden retriever, Trixie, in southern California.
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