I used to read a lot of Dean Koontz in junior high and High School. I haven't read his stuff in a while, and reading The Good Guy makes me wonder if I’d like all those book less if I went back and read them now. I suspect I would.

Tim sits in a bar making small talk. Another man walks in, suspects Tim’s the hired killer he’s looking for, and hires him to murder someone. Later the actual killer walks in, assumes Tim is the one hiring him, and tries to set up the murder.

Yeah, it just gets worse from there. Do people really set up a murder without verifying they are talking to an actual hitman? Do people really make these deals out in the open. The ridiculous premise leads to a ridiculous plot full of bad dialogue and boring characters. Most of the plot ideas seem to hang on so much happening by chance. None of these people in real life would have ever seen each other again. I won’t be trying another one of his books for a while. It makes me wonder how many of those stories I loved as a teenager are just junk?