Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: One of Koontz's Best!

While I confess to being an inveterate Dean Koontz fan (since back when he was Dean R. Koontz), I have to say that this ranks among his best. Koontz has had a tendency of late to become a bit lazy and fall back on tried and true formulas (an innocent taking on a nefarious government secret plot, et. al.). This story breaks form with his prior efforts, branching off into new and very welcome territory.His villian Enoch (Junior) Cain is among the best characters Koontz has ever created. And he takes us so effortlessly into the mind of this madman, creating a twisted logic for his every action, that you end up almost feeling sorry for this psycho. (I said "almost.")On the downside, the book could have done with a little judicious editing. Cutting by 75-100 pages would have picked up the pace just enough to make this effort truly sing. But it's well worth the read as is.