To be fair, I didn't read this book. I mostly skimmed it, ignoring the subplots about the detectives (human interest) and the government dark ops (horror) and stuck to the main plot: what to do if your abusive controlling soon-to-be ex-husband comes back from the dead and mutates into a giant iguana? I would have been more than happy to just stick to the suspense of whether or not her husband had come back from the dead but apparently that wasn't enough. Koontz had to run with the concept by abandoning it three feet from the entrance and going the secret evil government conspirary project route which is just so hard to cobble together believable details and just gets more and more ridiculous. There are a couple of sex scenes with the protangonists who are beautiful beautiful people and a rape by a giant iguana. Koontz writes beautifully timed suspense though, he is a obviously a master of leading the reader further on with will-they/won't-they/what's- next/do-they-get-away and I have to admire him for doing that quite well. But the plot is laughable and the pseudo-psychology pointless and the sub-plots unneccessary.