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Intensity

  • 1985 first published
  • 384 pages
  • ★ 3.6 (24 ratings)
  • 57 editions

Dean Koontz's Intensity (1985) is a horror novel. The story is set in Napa Valley, Calif.. It deals with young women, psychopaths, crimes against and California.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.6 out of 5 from 24 ratings, and 242 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 57 editions across 9 languages.

At about 384 pages, most readers finish it in 7–8 hours.

About Intensity

Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty-six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive-until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess’s next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl—as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

  • Napa Valley, Calif.

Subjects

  • Young women
  • Psychopaths
  • Crimes against
  • Suspense
  • Thrillers
  • Sheperd, chyna
  • Napa county, Calif.
  • California
  • Psychological
  • Horror
  • Suspense thrillers

Quick answers

Who wrote Intensity?

Intensity was written by Dean Koontz and first published in 1985.

What genre is Intensity?

It is usually shelved as Horror.

How long is Intensity?

The median edition has 384 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Intensity?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, The Collector and Falling.

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