This was one of my early attempts to write a cross-genre novel mixing action, suspense, romance, and a touch of the paranormal. A year later, Tina has reason to believe that the accident did not occur as reported, that her son is alive, is being held against his will, and is in desperate need of her. THE EYES OF DARKNESS is a modest little thriller about a woman, Tina Evans, who lost her child, Danny, when he was in an accident on a trip with his scouting troop. I explained my secret life as Leigh in the afterword to the new edition of Shadowfires therefore, I will devote what space I am given here to the novel itself and to the savage, brutal, cruel, maddening, insane, inane, nonsensical, stupid, bewildering, toxic, blood-curddling, lip-chafing, toenail-curling experience of working with a major television network to adapt the novel, and three others, as part of a program that would have been called “The Dean Koontz Theater” or “Dean Koontz Presents” or possibly “Here’s Dean!” or even “Koontzapalooza.” The producer, the studio, and the network never could agree on a title, and no one liked my idea– “Kickass Koontz Cinema”–and probably even realized I was not serious in proposing it. THE EYES OF DARKNESS was the second book I wrote under the pen name Leigh Nichols.
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