Jane Hawk's mad run from the law continues in Dean Koontz's "The Whispering Room". Jane gets an unlikely ally in the form of a sheriff from a rural Minnesota town who is devastated when an upstanding member of the community turns her car into a bomb and drives it into a hotel, killing a bunch of people. Luther finds Cora's journals at her house and reads about the spider in her brain that she wrote was taking over her life, and knows something big is going on. He lights out for Iron Furnace, Tennessee, where Cora went to a convention the year earlier and came back "different", according to a close friend of hers. Jane shows up in the town at the same time, on a trail given to her by one of the lawyers involved in the conspiracy to eliminate people who are a threat to their takeover of the world (confused yet? Shockingly, it all made sense in a scary sort of way). Jane and Luther team up and rescue a group of kids from the town and take them to safety, and Jane heads to San Francisco to confront the big bad guy, who turns out not to be the big bad guy after all but a front. Oh dear. I have a feeling this is all going to get worse before it gets better.
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