| The Key to Midnight | |
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Cover of The Key to Midnight |
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| Author(s) | Dean Koontz (as Leigh Nichols) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Suspense, Horror novel |
| Publisher | Berkley Publishing Group |
| Publication date | 1979 (1995 in paperback) |
| Media type | Hardcover, Paperback |
| Pages | 432 pp hardcover, 419 pp paperback |
| ISBN | 0-425-14751-7 |
| OCLC Number | 32377348 |
The Key to Midnight is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1979 under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols.
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In the 1995 paperback edition, Dean Koontz mentions that this novel is not like anything else he's done. In August 2010 Koontz releases "better" version in Paperback
A detective is hired to find a Senator's missing daughter. Years later he goes on a vacation and out of the blue finds himself in Japan. He walks into a lounge act and on stage is the Senator's daughter grown up.
Her name is different, she is older, but it is definitely her. He sends for his dead-case file and his private employed messenger is almost killed delivering it. Someone is watching him. Or her. Or both.
A twisted tale of hypnosis and finding oneself after great trauma. A dark tale from which both the main characters must deal with their past in order to survive for their future.
In Dean Koontz's novel The Key To Midnight one of the lead characters (Lisa Chelgrin) has had her entire life erased and her true past is blocked even while under hypnosis during which she repeats the phrase "tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun" instead of answering the questions about her true past. Her imposed/fake identity is named Joanna Rand. The Doctor (Inamura) trying to find ways around this memory block assumes there is a "password" or "pass-phrase" which will remove the memory block and allow access to her true memories.