Along the way, we meet a lot of people who are horrible, who are kind, and who are just weird. It takes awhile for the horror both Susan and Skeet are going through on the same day to be examined in detail, but eventually we learn there is a connection here to a lot of very evil stuff. Ahriman is a major stockholder in the facility? Somehow the painting crew (it’s Dusty’s business) manage to get him down without significant injury, and Dusty takes him back to an expensive rehab facility that has treated Skeet for drug addiction a few times in the past. Martie is the wife of Dusty Rhodes, who is having his own problems with his half-brother Skeet, who has decided to climb to the top of the house they have been painting and jump off the roof. Her friend Martie Rhodes has committed to taking her to her therapy sessions twice a week, even though it is sheer hell just to get her out of her apartment and into Martie’s car. We first encounter him as the therapist treating Susan Jagger, who has a terrible case of agoraphobia. Ahriman is a very wealthy psychiatrist with a unique clientele. I’ve often wondered how people like criminal profilers and psychiatrists keep from going mad themselves, not just being exposed to the truly mad, but trying actively to understand how their minds work. Dean Koontz knows it, and he shows us some of the strangest ones of all. It’s true: the strangest place on earth is the interior of the human mind.
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