Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview
  • Intensity

  • A Novel
  • By: Dean Koontz
  • Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
  • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (172 ratings)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Intensity

By: Dean Koontz
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £22.99

Buy Now for £22.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

#1 New York Times Bestseller

Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.

Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive - until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess’s next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl...as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.

©1995 Dean Koontz (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Bad Place cover art
Fear Nothing cover art
Ticktock cover art
Dark Rivers of the Heart cover art
The Bone Farm cover art
Darkfall cover art
Twilight Eyes cover art
Sole Survivor cover art
Devoted cover art
Elsewhere cover art
From the Corner of His Eye cover art
The Voice of the Night with Short Story, "Silence" cover art
Winter Moon cover art
The House at the End of the World cover art
The Big Dark Sky cover art
Whispers cover art

Critic reviews

“Chills the reader to the core and establishes Koontz as a master.”—Associated Press

“Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose . . . The story does not move so much as rocket up the . . . gloomy highway with the reader in violent pursuit.”—The New York Times

“The most viscerally exciting thriller of the year.”—Publishers Weekly

What listeners say about Intensity

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    98
  • 4 Stars
    44
  • 3 Stars
    16
  • 2 Stars
    10
  • 1 Stars
    4
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    91
  • 4 Stars
    30
  • 3 Stars
    20
  • 2 Stars
    7
  • 1 Stars
    5
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    90
  • 4 Stars
    38
  • 3 Stars
    12
  • 2 Stars
    9
  • 1 Stars
    5

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Intense!!

Absolutely brilliant. Tense from start to finish. Highly recommend!! As usual Dean Koontz at his best!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

Long drawn out.

Disappointed. Too many thoughts of the main character. Was able to go away snd return to find not much has changed. Good intense parts. DK had written better.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Gripping

This book kept me on the edge of my seat I loved it thanks .

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Koontz at his best

I saw this as a film a few years back and was absolutely fascinated by the evilness of this character , but in reading the book it goes into much more detail about the heroin
this book is thrilling horrifying,however I suppose it displays also no matter how bad things can get you can always find your way through it
you will love this read, if you're into a memorable horror story (no supernatural stuff) just pure human evil. I pray to God that there is no one out there like this ,the insanity and genius of the main character, it will definitely give you chills but it has a good ending, sort of.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

ending didn't live up to the book

good story but felt the ending was weak. not in keeping with the story line ended up feeling disappointed

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Really good thriller/mild horror novel

Very well narrated, and a nicely flowing story. Very violent and disturbing at times. I really liked the main character who you really begin to root for once finding out her back story.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Decent airport novel, poorly performed.

Sadly this serviceable thriller, which picks up well towards the second half was narrated in a decidedly flat voice which failed to modulate effectively and left it lacking "intensity". Shame.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    2 out of 5 stars

Could be good without the overdone descriptions

The basic story is good but the author has overdone the sentimentality and drawn out descriptions of unnecessary tripe.
The narrator hasn’t preread the book as she manages to mispronounce certain words which is sometimes cringeworthy

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic.❤️👍

I read this novel many years ago,and the audio version dosent deminish it,Frankie Corzo does a great job as narrator.Edgler Foreman Vess is a great Character,who you wouldnt want to run in to.I did read the first Odd Thomas novel,and while it wasnt my cup of tea,Mr Koontz more than makes up for it with this and other novels.I will deffinatly look for audio books narrated by Frankie Corzo.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Exceptional.

I have read and listened to this book many times. Chills your bones, wondering, why

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!