From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . .

As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with...

As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor's first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless vision, and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature...

Prodigal son - Tough New Orleans detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, investigate a string of murders, unaware that the culprit they seek was created by Victor Frankenstein, who has survived two hundred years and is populating the city with a new race of "perfect" beings, and that his original creation, Deucalion, is hunting his maker. City of night - Not even Victor Helios -- once Frankenstein -- can stop the engineered killers...