Title: Night Chills
Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Antheneum Publishers
Year: 1976
306 pages
Night Chills is a story about a town who falls prey to an epidemic that has strange effects on the population. People are getting strange chills and fevers throughout the night and then appearing to be better the next day. The problem seems unsolvable and only a few people are untouched by this strange illness.
Meanwhile, a group of scientists are studying the effects of subliminal messages in advertising. It has been long thought that messages are hidden within commercials and billboards that entice people to buy the product. But can a message be hidden that allows another person to gain control of the mind?
Koontz tells a great story that captures the imagination with just enough reality built that makes you wonder if these events could really happen. Although I found the first half of the book to have a bit of a slow pace, it's almost as if once you got over the mid-book hump, the story took off and I couldn't wait to see what happened next.
Night Chills wasn't as terror-filled as I was expecting based on Koontz's reputation but it was am enjoyable enough read.
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