The Bad Weather Friend by Dean Koontz

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Benny is so nice they feel compelled to destroy him, but he has a friend who should scare the hell out of them in this breathtaking new kind of thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.

Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He’s not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time.
How strange—though it’s a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what’s inside the crate. He’s a seven-foot-tall self-described “bad weather friend” named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. Spike will take care of it. He’ll find Benny’s enemies. He’ll deal with them. This might be satisfying if Spike wasn’t such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation.

In the company of Spike and a fascinated young waitress-cum-PI-in-training named Harper, Benny plunges into a perilous high-speed adventure, the likes of which never would have crossed the mind of a decent guy like him.

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File Name:the-bad-weather-friend-by-dean-koontz.epub
Original Title:The Bad Weather Friend
Creator:Koontz, Dean
Language:en
Identifier:3685921984
Publisher:Thomas & Mercer
Date:2024-02-01
File Size:908.316 KB

Table of Content

1. TITLE PAGE
2. COPYRIGHT PAGE
3. DEDICATION
4. CONTENTS
5. START READING
6. ONE THE MAN WHO WAS TOO NICE
7. FLORIDA
8. A BAD MORNING
9. FAT BOB
10. DRIVING HOME, BENNY REMEMBERS HIS FATHER
11. LOS ANGELES
12. HOME
13. TRASH BARREL
14. A BENEFACTOR
15. PLUGGED AND READY
16. ROMANCE
17. LISTENING TO “DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY” IN THE WAKE OF JILL’S REJECTION, BENNY REMEMBERS HIS GRANDMOTHER
18. NETWORKING
19. THE CRATE
20. ON THE WAY HOME FROM THE HARDWARE STORE, BENNY RECALLS A FORMATIVE DAY IN HIS LIFE
21. THE PLEASURE OF PHYSICAL LABOR
22. A GROWING SENSE OF DREAD
23. SOMETHING HUNGRY
24. HELP!
25. TWO HARPER, CRAGGLE, AND BUGBOY
26. WAITING FOR FAT BOB TO COME TO HIS AID, BENNY REMEMBERS HIS BOARDING SCHOOL ROOMMATE
27. MR. BEER FOR BREAKFAST
28. WAITING FOR BOB
29. BEFORE THE MONSTER
30. STRESS
31. WAITING WITH HARPER, BENNY RECALLS A MONSTROUS SIGHT FROM HIS THIRD NIGHT AT BRIARBUSH ACADEMY
32. WHAT HAPPENED TO FAT BOB IN THE GARAGE
33. THE MONSTER
34. ON THE ROAD
35. DUROC REDUX
36. INTIMIDATION
37. SPIKE’S FOLDING OF THE SKILLET REMINDS BENNY OF MENGISTU GIDADA
38. ON THE ROAD AGAIN
39. PARTY TIME
40. LEAVING THE PARTY OF THE CENTURY, BENNY REMEMBERS THE HORROR IN THE HEADMASTER’S HANGING GROUND
41. GASSED UP
42. AS BENNY GETS IN THE BACK SEAT WITH HARPER, HE REMEMBERS HIDING IN THE MOUNTAIN PIERIS
43. HOODLUMS
44. DINNER
45. ON THE WAY TO SEE F. UPTON THERON, BENNY REMEMBERS A BRIARBUSH MOMENT
46. THREE A QUIET LITTLE APOCALYPSE
47. F. UPTON THERON
48. DO NO HARM
49. AS HE ENTERS PALAZZO DEL CONIGLIO, BENNY REMEMBERS THE BRIARBUSH REGIME CHANGE
50. PALAZZO DEL CONIGLIO
51. THE HOUR OF THE RABBIT
52. TO LIVE FOREVER
53. A SUDDEN DEATH THAT UPENDS ALL EXPECTATIONS
54. LEAVING PALAZZO DEL CONIGLIO IN HIGH EMOTION, BENNY REMEMBERS AN EMOTIONAL TIME AT BRIARBUSH
55. ONE LAST STOP ON THE JOURNEY TO JUSTICE
56. APPROACHING THE HOME OF LLEWELLYN URNFIELD, BENNY REMEMBERS LEAVING BRIARBUSH WITH HIS MOTHER
57. LLEWELLYN URNFIELD
58. WAITING WHILE MS. URNFIELD EATS MORE STEAK TARTARE, BENNY REMEMBERS DR. FERNSEHEN LIEBHABER
59. URNFIELD UNCHAINED
60. WHEN HARPER IS SHOT, BENNY IS TOO SHOCKED TO DWELL ON MEMORIES OF HIS RETURN TO BRIARBUSH, BUT HERE IS PART OF WHAT HAPPENED BACK THEN
61. THE FATEFUL BULLET
62. BENNY’S RETURN TO BRIARBUSH, PART TWO
63. THE GARAGE
64. ENGAGEMENT PARTY
65. WEDDING DAY
66. ABOUT THE AUTHOR