Intensity : What An Understatement

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Mark Harris, Chyna doesn’t act like a horror-movie teenager and run into the hall. She does like most of us would do; she hides under the bed. Koontz really makes it feel like you could be the one squished under that bed. When the killer leaves the room Chyna searches the house undetected and finds her friend and everyone else had been brutally but quietly murdered. With revenge burning inside her, she rides undetected with two corpses on Edgler’s motor home. On the ride she witnesses two more killings and learns of a girl captive in his basement, whom she becomes determined to free.
Back at Vess’ log cabin in an Oregon mountain range, the suspense really begins to build. Chyna is so close to saving Ariel (the girl looked in the basement), and she must now take the biggest risks. By now Koontz has begun giving you the killers point of view. This ruins the suspense and terror some but also gives you a bit of relief to know what Edgler is thinking. This was also the only way ...

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