'Lightning'
a novel by **Dean Koontz, described about a Time Traveler who practiced to go in future through Time Travel Mechanism, once a time traveler jumped from 1944 to 1988 and he fell in love with a pretty young novelist.
During WWII, Adolph Hitler wanted to win the war any how. He established a laboratory of Time Travel where machine used by the Nazis; when the correct mathematical calculations are made the machine is set and the traveler steps inside in a tunnel and vanishes, reappearing at the chosen time, date and location. Nazis were researching to travel in future to bring highly advance technology or weapons to win WWII. A young man Stefan is time traveler, his appearance in future change a meteorological phenomenon 'lightning'.
One morning Stefan was walking in the street of California where he saw a queue of some persons to buy a novel with autograph of novelist. Anxiously he also joined the queue and reached the table of novelist Laura Shane, a very beautiful lady, he fell in love in first sight, but what…she is handicapped. A drunken doctor had attended to the difficult and complicated delivery of Laura, where she got an spinal injury to cause of handicap.
Back in 1955, a mysterious stranger stopped drunken doctor from attending to the difficult and complicated delivery. Despite of talented doctor her mother dies though Laura is perfectly born healthy, and raised by her father Bob Shane.
When Laura was eight years a junkie attempts to rob her father's store, before any harm come to Laura an stranger appears to save Laura, since then Laura Shane imagined him as 'Special Guardian' or 'Guardian Angle'.
At the age of 12 her father dies of a heart attack, she again saw guardian angel standing on the corner of cemetery ground. Laura is sent to live in an orphanage, where she accommodate with a set of twins Thelma and Ruthi, but one day Ruthi died in a fire. Sheener a child molester who was custodian of maintenance disturb Laura and other teen girls. After several disturbing incidents, Stephan visit Sheener and brutally beats him. Years later Danny a tall buff boy met then marry and have a child name Chris.
20 years later she met special angel on a snowy highway, she overwhelmed that he is still young as was seen him at 12. Stefan saved them from a horrific accident but unfortunately one of his time travel colleague Kokoschka has had shown up his movements, Kokoschka killed Danny, Stefan killed Kokoschka, Stefan disappears from there after promised to return and tell her who is he.
One night wounded Stefan reappears again at the door of Laura Shane, some assassins were chasing to kill him, Laura rescues Stefan. They do no make any written record because assassins can find them by go farther ahead in the future to seek credit card receipts, hotel register record, or newspapers to find out where the pair will flee.
Stefan goes back to his time with nerve gas to kill other Nazi time travelers and disposes their bodies six billion years in the future, he makes a jump to visit Winston Churchill carrying some records and books from future and convinces him that Time Travel Laboratory must be bombed, he also meets to Adolf Hitler convincing him that dictator of various threads that must be cleared up. Stefan sees hovering planes to start bombardment over Germany to destroy Laboratory, so he has no more time to calculate, fix the location and return to Laura Shane forever.
Laura Shane is possibly the best character ever written in this book. She's strong, brave and smart character. Dean Koontz developed her character. Stefan is such a charismatic man the way he helps Laura through the course of the book is genuinely heartfelt, the reader can feel himself as Stefan, (as I felt). I have read Lightning three four times and I never get tired of it with characters, scripts, and excitements, , page by page readers reach excitement with characters and you will love whether you have been a seasoned reader of Koontz or not.
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