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For one man, they are the five most terrifying words of all . . .
One year after the heart transplant that saved his life, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Perry has never felt better. He’s getting back everything he nearly lost forever—his business, his his life, and, with luck, his beloved girlfriend. Miracles do happen.
Then the unmarked gifts begin to arrive—a box of candy hearts, a heart pendant. Most disturbing of all is a graphic heart-surgery video and its chilling message: Your heart belongs to me. Ryan is being stalked by someone who feels entitled to everything he has. She’s the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan’s own chest. And she’s come to take it back.
- Sales Rank: #350147 in Books
- Brand: Bantam
- Published on: 2009-10-27
- Released on: 2009-10-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.50" h x .91" w x 4.10" l, .48 pounds
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- 384 pages
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche—and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all…
At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket—until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he’s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it’s his only hope, and it’s dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it all…his health, his girlfriend Samantha, and his life.
One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha. Then the unmarked gifts begin to appear—a box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant. Most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video and the chilling message: Your heart belongs to me.
In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has. She’s the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan’s own chest.
And she’s come to take it back.
Amazon Exclusive Essay: Dean Koontz on Writing Your Heart Belongs to MeI have been asked by the secret masters of Amazon how much research into transplant surgery I did before writing Your Heart Belongs to Me. I would like to reveal that, in the interest of accuracy and the accumulation of vivid detail, and because I bring total commitment to my writing, I underwent a heart transplant myself, even though I didn't need one. This would be a lie, however, and people without a sense of humor would write by the hundreds to accuse me of taking a perfectly good heart needed by some patient who really needed it.
To prepare for this novel, I read a few books on the subject of transplants, watched two educational films during which I passed out repeatedly at the sight of blood, and spoke with a few medical specialists in the field--largely to ascertain how they manage not to pass out in surgery every time they expose the pulsing internal organs of a patient.
Ryan Perry, the lead of Your Heart Belongs to Me, is 34, wealthy from the Internet social-networking site that he created, with an ideal life ahead of him. Then he learns he suffers from cardiomyopathy and will die within a year if he does not undergo a heart transplant. The procedure is successful, but a year later he begins to receive gifts--such as a heart-shaped locket--with the message "Your heart belongs to me. I want it back."
Although it might seem to be a ghost story, Your Heart Belongs to Me is something else entirely. In addition to being a thriller with a medical procedure as a key element, it is an unusual love story. Those who have never read my books--we know who you are--might be surprised to learn that more often than not, a love story is part of the mix. In a romantic relationship, we're vulnerable; and when a character in a novel is vulnerable, we are more likely to worry about him or her and to relate more intimately to the story. Furthermore, people in love have something precious to lose, and in their sometimes desperate efforts to hold fast to that love, they reveal themselves more profoundly than they might otherwise.
In the early years of my career--or what we here in Koontzland call "the long slog"--publishers resisted me when I wanted to mix genres. These days, my publisher encourages me to pursue fresh ways of telling stories. Consequently, Your Heart Belongs to Me is a suspense novel and love story with a thread of the supernatural weaving through it, set against a backdrop of medicine and medical mystery, concerning certain issues of ethics that are timeless--and others that are unique to our time. And I promise you that the medical detail is not so graphic that you will pass out.
A Q&A with Dean Koontz
Q: Your Heart Belongs to Me is very suspenseful but at the same time an affecting love story. How difficult was this to pull off?
A: Well, life is full of suspense and, if we're lucky, it's full of love as well. From minute to minute and day to day, we never know what will happen to us, good or bad, so suspense is the fundamental condition of existence. That doesn't change when we fall in love or when we love a child or a sibling or a great dog. In fact, the more we love, the more we have to lose, which puts a sharper edge on the suspense in life and in Your Heart Belongs to Me. Ryan Perry, the lead of the story, enjoys self-made wealth and good health and the love of a good woman--so when all that starts to slip away from him, it's actually easier for me to move readers to the edge of their seats and keep them there.
Q: Your books are full of details about how things work in the real world--like life in a monastery in Brother Odd, the management of a great Bel Air estate and the intricacies of police work in The Face, Your Heart Belongs to Me is rich with details about medical conditions and heart transplants. Since you don't specialize in one kind of novel, how do you learn about all these different things? Do you engage in a lot of Internet research?
A: I never go on-line. My writing schedule and other obligations keep me busy 18/7. The other six hours, I sleep. I know that I am a potentially obsessive personality and that it's easy to become obsessed with one aspect or another of the Internet, until hours a day are consumed by it. Therefore, I stay away. I do most of my research from books and publications, and by conducting interviews with specialists in whatever fields my story will touch upon. One of my assistants is on-line, and in a pinch, if I can't turn up a fact I need, she can get it for me. As a high-school and college student, I hated research and libraries. I always shamelessly made up the facts in reports that I wrote, and cited nonexistent books by nonexistent writers in my footnotes. And I always got away with it! But as a novelist, I've been surprised to find that I greatly enjoy doing research. I think the difference is--in school, they told me what I had to learn, and I bristled at authority; when I chose the subject, I proved to be an industrious autodidact.
Q: Your hero in Your Heart Belongs to Me, Ryan Perry, is different from your other heroes, like Odd Thomas and Mitchell Rafferty and Tim Carrier. What was it about the story you were telling in Your Heart Belongs to Me that required this change?
A: Most of my heroes come from ordinary occupations--a fry cook, a baker, a mason, a gardener, a bartender--which makes them like many of my friends in real life. But Ryan Perry in Your Heart Belongs to Me has made a couple hundred million from an Internet business. For this story, I needed a hero who, at the opening, has everything: he's wealthy, he has a beautiful girlfriend whom he loves and who loves him, he essentially leads a life of leisure at 34, he's vigorous and handsome and charming.... And then everything that really matters begins to slip away from him. He had to be at the top in order to be at risk of a long fall. As he begins to think that some people in his life are involved in a conspiracy to kill him, he needed to be a man of exceptional resources to pursue that investigation.
Q: Where did the idea for Your Heart Belongs to Me come from?
A: I was on the phone with a friend, talking about a smorgasbord of things, when the subject of heart transplants came up, and he told me something, an anecdote, that astonished me. Before I hung up, I had spun that small fact into a story that I couldn't wait to write. I've already made it clear to him that he gets no royalties! Story ideas have come to me from lines in songs, from a scrap of overheard conversation, from just about everywhere. And sometimes a story pops into my head, and I have no idea what the source of it was. Thank God this keeps happening; otherwise I might have to learn an honest trade like plumbing.
Q: What is next for you? Another Odd Thomas novel?
A: There will be three more Odd Thomas novels, but my book for spring 2009 is not one of them. It's titled The Other Side of the Woods and is in the vein of Life Expectancy. I'm having great fun with it. Even when writing is hard, I always have fun with it. In fact, the harder it is, the more fun it is, because the challenge is what makes the work worthwhile.
From Publishers Weekly
After the sophistication and ingenuity of such recent Hitchcockian thrillers as The Husband and The Good Guy, bestseller Koontz stumbles in this pallid effort. Ryan Kelly, a 34-year-old Internet entrepreneur, has it all, including an attractive journalist girlfriend he wants to marry, Samantha Reach, and a house in a gated community in Newport Coast, Calif. Harsh reality intrudes when he learns he has a serious heart defect and must get a transplant. Fortunately, a compatible donor turns up in time, but then someone launches a reign of psychological terror that leaves Ryan suspicious of Samantha and his longtime servants. The ultimate plot payoff is unworthy of this gifted author, as are patches of ponderous prose (With the moon still tethered to the eastern horizon but straining higher, with the giant pepper tree occluding most of the eternally receding stars, the time to talk of death had come). Koontz fans can only hope for a return to form next time. (Nov. 25)
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From Booklist
Self-made dot-com multimillionaire Ryan Perry is a handsome, superbly fit, still-surfing 34. Sudden serious chest pain leads to the diagnosis of an enlarged heart, for which transplantation is the only possible life-sustaining fix. Ryan lets the paranoia he could profitably control while making his fortune run away with him both before and after the successful operation. He can’t substantiate his fears beforehand, but a year of new-hearted life later, they physically assault him in the form of a beautiful Chinese woman who says he has her heart. Koontz doesn’t start his new thriller auspiciously, bathing his unsympathetic protagonist in tinny metaphors and bland scene-painting. For the first several pages and at times later, you want to toss the book aside because it so resembles ad copy. Mercifully soon it dawns that Ryan is a Hitchcockian antihero, like, say, Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) in North by Northwest. You identify with him despite his shallowness and self-absorption, at first because he’s in life-threatening trouble but ultimately because his subsequent ordeal rouses an underlying decency in him that only Samantha, his lover at the book’s opening (but not ending), sees from the start, and that he must very nearly die, though not from a bad heart, to bring out in himself. This isn’t among the most congenial of Koontz’s moral thrillers, but it is definitely one of the most thoughtfully developed. --Ray Olson
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Different kind of Koontz
By Ginahmk
Well, this is not spooky Koontz of the 80's or 90's, nor the more intriguingly, bittersweet adventures of Odd Thomas, but the "new" Koontz exploring mortality and ambiguity, similar in tone to Stephen King's Duma Key. The story starts out with Ryan, the 30 + year-old dot.com millionaire having fun with living his life. He falls in love with the driven writer, Sam, an identical twin whose sister died, and here, his trouble starts. Sam is just not that into him. Then, the mysterious physical symptoms start. To anyone who has faced life-threatening illness, you can identify with the fear, suspicion, need for control. Well, Ryan steps up to take charge...with the best docs around...all the while feeling something is not quite right. Well, you have to read to see that, indeed, all was not quite right. But the story evolves and you are left wondering...what was going really going on? What was the "subtext" of the story as Sam, the writer would say? The book gets high marks for chronicling Ryan's introspections, the development of mystery and revelation, but the ending...a bit hard to believe. Still well worth reading.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Your Heart Belongs to Me - My Favorite One Yet
By Pamela
I've read a number of Koontz's books, though admittedly not all. Of the ones I've read this is my favorite and the easiest read of all. I love a good scare and started reading his books for the shiver. Although not of the horror genre, this one didn't disappoint. I got all the thrills and chills I'd hoped for and it carried me through a number of other emotions I wasn't expecting. I would have given it five stars but it left me floundering at one point, and I felt that part might have been handled differently. But then that's my perspective. Over all a stellar read. I definitely recommend it.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Not the best he's done
By Mary Jo DiBella
Normally I inhale Mr Koontz's work but this one just didn't click for me. It did ask some interesting questions, but when I read his books I usually walk away with a smile on my face, thinking about the wonder of the human spirit.
In this case, I wasn't really smiling. I don't want to give spoilers, but in general the question asked is: if great evil is done on behalf of someone who does not know about it, is that person responsible? Does that person have to spend the rest of his life atoning for the evil, just because he ends up thinking he *should* have known about it?
If the clues were more obvious, I might have felt better, but frankly I missed them too. When the explanation came, I thought, 'Wow, never saw THAT coming...' So it's hard to believe that the main character beats himself up over having believed in the sort of people that we've all spent our lives being taught to trust...especially when they seem so darned NICE...
There were also an awful lot of loose ends. Some characters who seemed to have been put there just so we could love to hate them ended up completely uninvolved with the story.
I have always bought this author's work in hardcover, on release day, and I will continue to do so. I don't regret buying this one, but it won't go onto my 'reread this' pile.
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