That the "good guys" are instantly recognizable by their abundant compassion, generosity, and sense of humor and the "bad guys" by their fussbudget fastidiousness and dedication to efficient extermination of inferior humans helps lay the foundation for the humanitarian homilies that punctuate the narrative. The banter and camaraderie remains, but the couple have grown and the center of their life. In this adventure, Victor Frankenstein's original creation, now known as Deucalion, once again joins the crime-fighting couple of Carson and Michael. As affectless pod-person lookalikes gradually replace the town's citizens, the task of saving humanity from Victor and his megalomaniacal plans to "destroy the soul of the world" fall once again to husband-and-wife detectives Michael and Carson Maddison Victor's soulsearching original monster, Deucalion and a host of local yokels who provide both sympathy and comic relief. The fourth book in Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Lost Souls, was as exciting and fast-paced as book one. Set in Rainbow Falls, Mont., Koontz's goofy, grisly fourth riff on the Frankenstein theme (after Dead and Alive) finds Victor-previously presumed dead but apparently as easily resurrected as cinematic incarnations of his monster-perfecting his "New Race" of humanoid replicants.
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