Intensity by Dean Koontz [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1995 • Knopf

Intensity by Dean Koontz  FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1995] ALFRED A. KNOPF Beautiful true 1st of one of Koontz's finest novels.  Arguably the source of inspiration for french horror film, High Tension.  Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Dust jacket is excellent; minor shelf wear.  Now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.  Book has some very light shelf wear to boards.  Reads like new! Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed "homicidal adventurer," Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with "intensity." Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle