Photographing the Dead (Nameless Book 2) by Dean Koontz
I received a complimentary Kindle copy of Photographing the Dead (Nameless Book 2) by Dean Koontz in an Amazon promotion in exchange for a fair review.
I gave this book five stars because I found it intriguing. It is an ongoing story about "Nameless". It follows Heart of the Fire (Nameless Book 1) and continues with The Praying Mantis Bride (Nameless Book 3). I look forward to reading the rest of the six books that are in this series. I read it in one sitting and the time passed quickly. The "Nameless" protagonist is a mysterious character and it's fascinating to discover more about him.
"Mia and Kara Benton are twenty-six, fraternal twins, therefore not identical, but equally attractive and athletic and high-spirited and in love with nature...they hike together twice every summer, for a week at a time. Because every forested wilderness is a church to them, these expeditions are spiritual and a bonding experience."
Here is Nameless' arrival: "he finds a California driver's license for Kenton Paul Mallory It bears his photo. This is a forgery, but if a cop stops him and runs the number, it will show a legitimate in the DMV records, even though it is a phantom insert made by a hacker. A superb hacker...This license suggests that the current mission will involve so much on-the-road time that risking a traffic stop with no license is thought more dangerous than presenting bogus plastic."
More information about Nameless: "The man who is not Kenton Mallory is not anyone else, either. He's all right with being nameles. During the last two years, he's operated successfully under many identities. The amnesia that denies him all knowledge of his life before that would be psychogically crippling, even devastating, if he wasn't convinced, intuitively, that he's much better of not knowing who he once was."
"Ironically, considering that his past lies hidden behind a curtain of amnesia, he has perfect recall regarding anything he's read or heard during the past two years."
Describing Palmer Oxenwald, the man that Nameless is seeking: "he checks out at eight o'clock, tellin the man at the front desk that a dear friend in San Diego is terminal and wants to see him before the cancer wins.
In fact, Palmer had no friends. No one does. Friendship is an illusion, like love and compassion. Palmer's true identity is Death, Death incarnate, and Death has no illusions."
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