| 词条 | The Key to Midnight |
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| name = The Key to Midnight | image = Image:The Key to Midnight.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Dean Koontz (as Leigh Nichols) | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Suspense, horror | publisher = Pocket Books | release_date = 1979 (1995 in paperback) | media_type = print | pages = 392 | isbn = 0-671-80915-6 | oclc= 32377348 | preceded_by = The Vision | followed_by = The Funhouse }}The Key to Midnight is a suspense-horror novel by American writer Dean Koontz, released in 1979 under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols. It is considered Koontz's first success.[1] OverviewIn the 1995 paperback edition, Koontz states that The Key to Midnight "is not like anything else I have done"; he also explained that he revised the novel for that year's edition, cutting 30,000 words and adding 5,000.[2] In August 2010, Koontz released a "better" version in Paperback. Plot synopsis{{Expand section|date=June 2008}}Lisa Chelgrin is a US Senator's daughter. Her life has been erased and true past blocked. Her imposed, fake new identity is Joanna Rand. A detective, Alex Hunter, is hired to track Lisa down, but he finds nothing. Years later, during a vacation in Kyoto, Japan, he views a lounge act in which Lisa Chelgrin performs. Her name is different than it was before, and she is older, now working as the nightclub owner and singer. Nevertheless, the detective knows it is she. He sends for his dead-case file, and his privately employed messenger is almost killed delivering it. Someone is watching him and Lisa. At the same time, a person known as The Doctor (Inamura) is trying to find a way around Lisa's memory block, and he assumes that, by removing a "password" or "pass-phrase," he can access Lisa's true memories. Under hypnosis, however, Lisa can only repeat the phrase "tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun," instead of answering the questions The Doctor asks her about her true past. After the first series of events, Lisa and Alex try to deal with their respective pasts so they can survive. Characters
References1. ^http://books.guardian.co.uk/harpercollinscrime/story/0,17008,1687573,00.html 2. ^http://everettsaws.studioandrew.com/key-to-midnight-interview/ External links
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