The Good Guy

By Dean Koontz

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

The Good Guy is a 2007 thriller by Dean Koontz, a bestselling author of suspense novels such as Intensity and Phantoms. It is a standalone novel. Tim Carrier, a mason having a beer in a California tavern, is mistaken by a stranger for a hired killer and handed an envelope with money and a photo of a woman to kill. He tries to correct the mistake, warns the intended victim, Linda Paquette, and goes on the run with her, chased by the real assassin.

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