Published in 1987 (and available to purchase HERE), Watchers was about a gifted Golden Retriever taking on the forces of evil – and it inspired a four film franchise.

Only a force greater than evil, like Kipp, can stop a man driven by malicious evil from attacking Woody and his mother.Įlements of that description bring to mind my favorite of the Koontz novels I've read, Watchers. When Kipp, a uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his breed, hears the boy, who communicates like he does without speaking, Kipp knows he needs to find him before it’s too late. Woody Bookman, a boy who hasn’t spoken a word in his eleven years of life, and who believes a monstrous evil was behind his father’s death and now threatens him and his mother. Published in March of this year, Devoted is about (You can pick up a copy of Devoted HERE.) “Devoted” has every mark of a classic.Tomorrow Studios, the company behind the television shows based on the films SNOWPIERCER and HANNA, have announced that they are developing a series based on the recent Dean Koontz novel Devoted. His name is Kipp.” The boy is now freed from inhibitions that made him mute.Ĭanine or human, it is hard to find a more lovable character in fiction than Kipp. The novel’s most poignant moment comes when Megan tentatively calls the dog “Scooby.” Woody then speaks for the first time in his 11 years of life: “No. Kipp learns all this from Woody, who can communicate with Mysterium dogs, and plots a dramatic way to defeat the villains. Why? Woody, autistic and mute but a genius computer hacker, has found evidence that his father didn’t die from a freak accident.

The boy, Woody Bookman, and his widowed mother, Megan, have just been terrorized by one of the evil people intent on killing them. Sensing Kipp’s need to get somewhere urgently, Hawkins follows the dog’s unspoken directions and delivers Kipp to the boy’s home some 80 miles away.

It could have been a perilous journey, but luckily, Kipp is picked up by Ben Hawkins, a good-hearted novelist and former Navy SEAL.

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