watchers (english edition)  <b>a “superior thriller”(<i>oakland press</i>) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 <i>new york times</i> bestselling author dean koontz—<b>nominated as one of america’s best-loved novels by pbs’s <i>the great american read</i>.</b><br /><br /></b>on his thirty-sixth birthday, travis cornell hikes into the foothills of the santa ana mountains. but his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled golden retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods.<br /><br />that morning, travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. what he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation...