States: “UNCORRECTED PROOF FOR LIMITED DISTRIBUTION” on the cover and “THESE ARE UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOFS BOUND FOR YOUR REVIEWING CONVIENENCE” on the first page.
Some proofs were released with an addition sticker on the cover mentioning book club and audio rights.
Limited UK Proof
Release Date: 1990
Format: Trade paperback with modified trade hardcover art
Publisher: Headline
Page Count: 513
States: "An uncorrected proof copy with the compliments of HEADLINE" on cover sticker.
200 numbered and signed copies as issued by Headline. Number and autographed on inside front cover. I am unsure on whether the sticker on the front cover was on all or some of the copies.
Featured in the Family Circus comic strip on June 4, 1991.
New York Times #1 bestseller, first three weeks of February 1991.
Eleventh of the top 15 fiction bestsellers of 1991.
Advertisement for the Audio appears on page 43 of the July 5, 1991 issue of Publishers Weekly, just two pages before the review.
The 24th mass-market paperback printing included a new Afterword. This afterword is also included in the trade paperback edition.
Reviews:
FOSOFX #191, June 1998 (p12) contains a sort review by Rodney Leighton. In what might be the shortest review of any Dean Koontz title ever, I’ll quote it in full here:
“One of Koontz’s poorer efforts, in my view.”
Other editions:
Proof w/ rights stickerMass market paperback 24th printing (Afterword)UK trade hardcover (Headline)UK BCEGerman paperbackDanish Edition courtesy of Thomsen
