Sole Survivor — Vocabulary
Dean Koontz
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She was a kind and gentle woman, full of compassion for Joe even as she coped with her own loss.†17 more

I'll be back when it's time, she promised, as though she had revelations to make, truths to reveal.†15 more

I always have a cassette recorder with me, because I like to tape all meetings myself and have my own transcripts prepared.†15 more

Three hundred and thirty people, including passengers and crew, perished instantly.†8 more

Ignoring him nonetheless, Joe drove toward the exit.†9 more

If you can bear to watch, the containment vessel is opened twice each week to allow the handlers to clean their asset.5 more

The drunk driver had no assets, and they received no compensation from any insurance company for the loss of the limb.5 more

He checked the luminous dial of his watch.†8 more

When the remains of his wife and children had been conveyed to him, after the investigation of the crash and the meticulous cataloguing of both the organic and the inorganic debris, Joe was given only fragments of their bodies.†8 more

It was green, stationary, and located approximately where the van itself was parked.†6 more

Now we understand more about molecular structure—and particle physicists create matter ex nihilo all the time.†8 more

The sea was a perpetually laboring machine with no purpose but the continuation of its own existence, romanticized and cherished by countless poets but incapable of knowing human passion, pain, and promise.†5 more

Uphill and at least a hundred yards to the east, the woman fled under the generously spreading boughs of stone pines clustered along the perimeter of the burial grounds, across shaded grass only lightly dappled with sunshine.†7 more

According to the manifest, Rose Tucker was forty-three years old, and her home was in Manassas, Virginia.7 more

Lately, KSB-22-09 is experiencing memory lapses and spells of paranoia, which are thought to be related to the long-term use of the sedative that he receives before bed each night.1 more

Frank had lost the left one when his car was broadsided by a pickup truck driven by a nineteen-year-old drunk with lapsed insurance.1 more

If any of these IV drips or other lifelines works loose or otherwise fails, an insistent alarm immediately alerts the handlers, and in spite of the existence of redundant systems, repairs are undertaken without delay.†1 more

The imbued photograph is usually enough.†3 more

Joe slid a finger down the smooth silver-plated frame and across the glass, as if he were clairvoyant and able to read the meaning of the photograph by absorbing a lingering psychic energy from it.†2 more

The gunman, about forty, had large sad eyes, hound-dog eyes, a nose bashed red by the slow blows of two decades of drink, and a sensuous mouth.†3 more