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Reviews:

• “Synchronicities, Cults, and Coincidences,” The Big Thrill, August 1, 2022
• “The Big Dark Sky, by Dean Koontz,” Horror Drive-In, February 1, 2023

Dean gets meta:

Chapter 44, p201
At last, she said, “Supposing we get out of here, it’ll be dark by then. You go into the woods nearby and hide. I’ll take the knife, if there’s still anything left of it by then. Maybe I can get him while he’s sleeping.”
“It’s not a knife for killing anyone,” Colson said. “Even in perfect condition, the blades are too short.”
“It’ll work if I cut a carotid artery. Or he’s sleeping, so I stab him in the eye, take his gun from him, put him down with it.”
“What’re you—Jane Hawk?”
“Who’s Jane Hawk?”
“This kick-ass rogue FBI agent in these novels my mom likes. Even if you were Jane Hawk, it won’t work the way you say. It never will.”
“Then I’ll find another way. You just hide in the woods, and I’ll find another way.”

Chapter 48, p222
“What’re the odds I’d be locked in here with a kid who knows masonry?”
“What’re the odds I’d be locked in with a Jane Hawk clone?”

This is not the first time Dean has done this. The first time was way back in 1970 in the novel Share the Warm Flesh.