Quicksilver

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn

Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

2022 SOVAS Award Winner for Best Voiceover Audiobook Narration—Thriller

#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz takes a surprising and exhilarating road trip with a man in pursuit of his strange past—mile by frightening mile.

Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery—abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of “strange magnetism.” It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life.

During a shoot-out at a forlorn dude ranch, he finally meets his destined companions: Bridget Rainking, a beauty as gifted in foresight as she is with firearms, and her grandpa Sparky, a romance novelist with an unusual past. Bridget knows what it’s like to be Quinn. She’s hunted, too. The only way to stay alive is to keep moving.

Barreling through the Sonoran Desert, the formidable trio is impelled by that same inexplicable magnetism toward the inevitable. With every deeply disturbing mile, something sinister is in the rearview—an enemy that is more than a match for Quinn. Even as he discovers within himself resources that are every bit as scary.

©2022 The Koontz Living Trust (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

“Narrator Todd Haberkorn really gets into the characters, all of whom he gives drastically different voices that fit their personalities. It's as if he is a cast of multiple people.… Haberkorn's entertaining narration guides the listener as Quinn and company desperately try to stay ahead of a sociopathic force.”—AudioFile Magazine

“Todd Haberkorn, who narrates and performs the novel, does a fine job of adjusting his voice as Quinn ages. A child's simple gratitude, a young man's wanderlust, a woman's heartache, and an old man's experience all give listeners a clear aural sense of which character is speaking. Koontz's fans will enjoy the familiarity of the novel, while new listeners will enjoy the plot.”—Library Journal

“As an author, Dean Koontz is one of the very best when it comes to a riveting novel of mystery, suspense, and action. Quicksilver…narrated by impressive storytelling skills of Todd Haberkorn, will be treasured by the legions of Dean Koontz fans.”—Midwest Book Review

Shut up already

Well. I love Koontz, but this story was crap. So dang verbose that I ended up fast forwarding the story. I just couldn’t take the nonsense from the main character.

Not my personal choice

You have to read through the lines. very odd story. If you like Koontz, you'll love this.

Agree with others…

I love DK, but although I feel this story has a good premise, it started droning on right when it sucked me in. It took me days to finish the last 90 minutes. I kept zoning out. As others have said, the story became verbose and drawn out and that is something I don’t expect from Dean. King does that, but the stories are so intricate that it isn’t quite as painful because once it gets going it goes for the most part. I prefer Dean over King because I simply do not need a description of a blade of grass that takes three long paragraphs or pages to describe. Dean has always saved me from that, or used to anyways. I feel more and more that he is pushing towards being drawn out. I wonder if some literary jerk made a comment on the ease of getting through his books or something about substance. Ugh is all I can say to that. And I also agree with the reviewer that compared Quinn to Odd Thomas. There are similarities but again I don’t mind because the premise was good. I hope there are sequels that are as good as Tick Tock and some of his older works.

Narration needs help/decent book

I am a fan of Dean Koontz books and this one is pretty good overall. The main character is a little too close to Odd Thomas in my opinion ( compares himself to a scourge for example), but since I liked that series also, I am not completely upset. I do like the narrator’s character voices, but the hardest part of listening to this book is the extremely long pauses he takes in between sentences (and sometimes right in the middle of a sentence) that makes you think the audio book paused or stopped working. If the narrator can get that resolved, I think he would be much more enjoyable to listen to. I do like the happier ending of the book than what you find in most thriller type books. My overall score on this would be a 6 out of a 10. We will see if the series continues and what that will entail.

The next ODD?

This book is starting and sounding very similar to the ODDThomas character and series. Ok so far, just not so original, yet.

Dean Koontz does it again.

another enjoyable book--feels like it fits in the Odd Thomas universe and I want so much to keep reading and finding out more! I also feel this ties into the old quotes that used to be in his older books about a coming apocalypse. please keep telling us more about this universe, Dean. thank you.

Okay, but not great.

It starts out great, but gets a bit slow. I found that the ending left me a bit flat.

Awesome book. Read well too.

I loved this book. At first I wasn't sure if I liked the reader or the story, but in the end was sad that there wasn't more.

WOW

I'm so glad I didn't let the reviews stop me from listening to this book. I loved everything about it. The narrator did an amazing job. I will definitely look for other books he has read.

Excellent story

Dean Koontz could write a grocery list and make it seem interesting. This story is interesting with lots of the usual bad guys, extraterrestrials, government agencies on the wrong side. But there is the group of good guys to save the world. Is there a book to follow this one so we get a finale.