Shitty sequel to "Fear Nothing". No further character development takes place and the interesting "secret military genetic research project gone wrong" setting has somehow been magically transformed into "god will punish us for even trying to unlock his secrets - we never had a chance - science is the root of all evil". The book kinda loses credibility when a boring concrete research lab of the US army is described as having a "satanic architecture". Koontz also pushes religion constantly at the reader as the "obvious" thing. My least favorite scene from the book was the one where Koontz describes someone who recently died because of the gene-project as "they were atheists...until recently". Oh please...we atheists surely must repent and praise the lord once we discover we're going to die. Overall, the book is just too pro-religion and anti-science to be enjoyable. Koontz seems to be getting more and more religious with every book, which is a disturbing trend.