Watchers is as good as Dean Koontz gets and it is pretty damn good. There are all the hallmarks of what put Koontz on the top of his game, which he was in the late 80s. There non-stop storytelling. There's a believable and likable protagonist. There's a terrible but fascinating villain (Koontz writes some of the best villains in modern horror). And, of course, there is a really cool dog...Golden retriever of course. It is this intellectually enhanced dog that really carries the tale and makes it rise above the pack (no pun intended) in mainstream suspense and horror. The place to start, and some people say to stop, in reading Dean Koontz.