New York: Bantam, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story of good versus evil, which begins with "a handsome young man named Junior Cain hiking up a steep trail with his lovely bride. . and Junior, for no reason at all, pushes his wife off a water tower and goes merrily on his way, leaving his beloved Naomi 'as dead as a toad in the wake of a Mack truck.' [this is not a] standard-issue serial killer story . . it is a big book full of angels and demons, with a plot that ever so gradually focuses on the births of two saintly babies." (NYTimes) INSCRIBED by Koontz on the half title page "To Robert, Happy New Year! It's 2001 so where the hell are the aliens?" and dated 01/11/2001. 622 pp. ISBN: 0-553801341.