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KOKO - A BLUE ROSE NOVEL.

by Peter Straub.

REVIEWS:

In his most gripping, most hallucinogenic thriller to date, the author of Ghost Story and Shadowland takes us on a dizzying spin through those eerie psychic badlands where nightmare and insanity seem to fuse with reality. Its 15 years after the Vietnam War and a string of murders in Southeast Asia convinces four veterans of the same Vietnam platoonone now a doctor, another a writerthat the murderer, whose trademarks are mutilation and a playing card with Koko scrawled on it, was also a member of the platoon. They resolve to find him, for purposes of their own, before the police do.... The characters are realistic and complex, and the story continues to resonate in the mind long after the final page is turned. --Publishers Weekly.

OVERVIEW: Koko. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They were Vietnam vets-a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a single shattering secret. Now, they have been reunited and are about to embark on a quest that will take from Washington, D.C., to the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York, hunting someone from the past who has risen from the darkness to kill and kill and kill.

2009 Anchor, 576 pages. List price $15.00.