Aware that authorities will blame him, he plans to start a new life. Lee is also an old flame of Megan’s and has escaped a lab where 93 others died. The repercussions he triggers aren’t the worst threat on their way. The boy, Woody, has theories about his father’s death, and accidentally calls attention to himself while deep diving in the dark web looking for answers. And a golden retriever of extraordinary intelligence plays his part in creating a new world.

The CEO of a radical experimentation lab, Lee, is on the run after a catastrophic malfunction. The plot centers on a few different characters: a non-verbal autistic boy and his mother, Megan, trying to move on after the sudden death of his father. It’s one of the few books I have finished wondering what the heck I’d just read. Written by bestselling American author Dean Koontz, this story (due for release on April 6 th 2020) is at times genuinely frightening and disturbing, and at others feels like a PG family movie. “Devoted” has every mark of a classic.Devoted is a twisted, crazy roller coaster of a book. His name is Kipp.” The boy is now freed from inhibitions that made him mute.Ĭanine or human, it is hard to find a more lovable character in fiction than Kipp. The novel’s most poignant moment comes when Megan tentatively calls the dog “Scooby.” Woody then speaks for the first time in his 11 years of life: “No. Kipp learns all this from Woody, who can communicate with Mysterium dogs, and plots a dramatic way to defeat the villains. Why? Woody, autistic and mute but a genius computer hacker, has found evidence that his father didn’t die from a freak accident. The boy, Woody Bookman, and his widowed mother, Megan, have just been terrorized by one of the evil people intent on killing them. Sensing Kipp’s need to get somewhere urgently, Hawkins follows the dog’s unspoken directions and delivers Kipp to the boy’s home some 80 miles away. It could have been a perilous journey, but luckily, Kipp is picked up by Ben Hawkins, a good-hearted novelist and former Navy SEAL.

The boy seems to need help, so Kipp goes to find him. One day, Kipp hears on it a strange murmur that seems to come from a human boy. The Mysterium dogs stay in touch with each other on “the Wire,” a telepathic communication medium unique to them.

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