In the Heart of the Fire (Nameless: Season One, #1)

by Dean Koontz

He knows—a better word is believes—that his amnesia is a medical matter beyond his control, but he senses that it’s also somehow a choice he has made.

Certain events are lightly sketched on the future and can be erased. Others are woven into the fabric of all that is to come and resist being unraveled.

Lucas Bronstead was a true believer in a looming societal collapse. It is thought he constructed a secret bunker under the garage, without the approval of the building department. Anomalies in the filed plans suggest this deep redoubt might be accessed through a supplies closet in the office that Lucas maintained here.

This is his life: confrontation with the darkness that has nothing to do with an absence of light.

His clairvoyance is time travel achieved without leaving the present. The curtains of the past part, and he sees what has been; the mists of the future clear, and he sees an event yet to occur.

Those who are corrupted in turn corrupt the innocent. That is the only purpose of humanity: to deceive, to use, to dominate and destroy.