Wednesday, September 9, 2009

YOUR HEART BELONGS TO ME By Dean Koontz

Meet Ryan Perry , thirty four, athletic, loves to surf, Internet entrepreneur. He has done very well in life so far. His friends call him Dotcom. He has his own cook and a driver also has a personal trainer three times a week. With the healthy lifestyle he leads you would think he would be the last person to begin suffering from heart problems, But he does.
He goes to the internist to find out whats wrong and learns he has an enlarged heart. The doctor sites several reasons why a person might have this problem one of them being poisoning. The doctor says only a biopsy can show for sure what course of medical action to take.
Ryan then goes home to his fortress like manson and begins to hear strange noises and whispering when nothing is showing up on his twenty camera security system.
This makes him begin to suspect everyone around him. Could his caretakers , Lee and Kay Ting be sneaking around whispering about him?
He decides to call, Wilson Mott a private detective he has used before to check some people out. but instead , when he gets Mott on the phone he asks him to find his girl friend Samantha's mother. Samantha has told him they are estranged.
He then goes to a Dr named Gupta for a biopsy and while he's there a nurse named Ismay Clemm says some very strange things to him, asking if he hears the man coming for him and telling him to come to her when he hears the bells. He decides he must have been having wild dreams on the anesthesia and puts it out of his mind. He continues to feel as if people are following him and be fearful is it real or just part of his condition.
He finds out from the doctor that there is no cure for him and he will need a new heart.
Then he gets a call from Wilson Mott, Samantha's mother Rebecca is in Vegas and is dating a euthanasia doctor named Spencer Barghest. Her and Samantha are probably estranged because she made the decision to remove a feeding tube from her brain damaged daughter and allow her to die. The girl was Samantha's twin.
The next day he goes to Samantha's for dinner and ends up staying the night. In the middle of the night he is awakened by voices and gets up to see Samantha talking to Spencer Barghest outside. He then makes the decision he needs to go to Vegas and search Rebecca's house and also Spencer's. He calls Mott to set it up and takes off to Vegas.
He meets with people Mott has put in place to help him and he searches Rebecca's home ,finding nothing. He then goes to Spencer's and searches finding out that Spencer is a man obsessed with death even having photo albums of dead faces, Teresa, Samantha's twin being one of them.
Ryan then decides he must be over reacting and goes back home. As time goes on he begins to fear more and more he wont get a heart in time. He decides to begin to look for another doctor , maybe if he gets the transplant this terrible fear will be over. He then finds a Dr. Hobb and begins to see him without telling anyone. He is unwittingly pulled by fear and fortune into the underworld of black market organ transplants.
I thought this book was good because it opens your eyes to think about how someone could be blind enough not to realize what the cost is for the things they need. After all this country is full of things like that. (blood diamonds etc...)
7/10

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