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  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,          The Crooked Staircase is the third full-length Jane Hawk novel by Dean Koontz. It is published by Bantam Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. As we careen off the cliff of the second book's revelations, Jane Hawk is on the trail of Booth Hendrickson, another Techno Arcadian hell-bent on controlling the country. Through injections, the Arcadians have devised a control mechanism that takes over its host through keywords. The adjusted person is at their mercy to commit suicide, murder, or blindly serve the Arcadians' doctrine that those who oppose them must be controlled or eliminated. Jane's husband was at their mercy and committed suicide. And her son, now in hiding, was threatened by them. Tired and low on resources, Hawk devises a plan to kidnap Hendrickson to get to another head Techno Arcadian mastermind. The road to the truth ends at the crooked staircase and a revelation that will send Jane fu...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       The Whispering Room is Dean Koontz's second full-length Jane Hawk novel. It is released by Bantam Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Publishing. Jane Hawk is on the hunt for the shadow organization developing nanotechnology that allows them to puppeteer whomever they wish.   Hundreds of miles away from Jane a celebrated school teacher drives her flaming car into a hotel, killing dozens of people. Her senseless act of terrorism is confusing to her long-time friend, Luther Tillman, the local Sheriff. As he investigates her death, he is intercepted by agents he believes are working with law enforcement. Soon he is removed from the case and the teacher's home is burned. Reading journals that he procured from her home before the fire, Tillman settles down to read Cora Gundersun's last words. What he discovers chills him.   As Tillman an...