The Night Window by Dean Koontz
I have read a few of Mr. Koontz's books before, however, I didn't know it was the fifth book in a series and couldn't follow the story as a result.

Dean Koontz brings Jane Hawk's one-woman war to an explosive climax as the rogue FBI agent wages her final battle against a terrifying conspiracy--for vengeance, for justice, and for humanity's freedom.

Did the book live up to it's hype? Not totally, but Jane Hawk continues to take the reader on a rollicking, if somewhat predictable ride. I was glad to see the series come to an end as I felt Koontz used lightly veiled interactions from previous Hawk books. But, the end was satisfying and I'm glad I read the series.

A fitting end to a fantastic series. We see old characters from previous books make reappearances. We meet an unforgettable new friend who ties together some plot lines in previous books that previously didn't seem connected to the main story.

I found the book very entertaining and really liked it. But the book is not perfect. First, things seem rushed and a little too tidy. For example, Jane's father. She spent so much time dealing with her father-issues that having that situation resolved almost backhandedly feels like a little bit of a cheat. I wanted a show down. Also, the final chapter of the previous book was not addressed. I would have liked some follow-up with that situation.

If you like books with a lot of action then this is the book for you. This is the last book in the series and Mr. Koontz ended it with a flourish. There were so many elements in this story which I will not name in order for it to be a surprise.
Many thanks to Random House Publishing Group- Ballantine Bantam and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

You have to like Dean Koontz’s novels to really appreciate this book. His characters are amazingly well developed and you will either hate them or like them.

In this installation of the Jane Hawk series you are informed that a hunt is to take place at Creek Crystal Ranch, a twelve-thousand-acre spread owned by Hollister. You are also told that Thomas Buckle a houseguest from Los Angeles will probably be dead by dawn. He has been asked to visit the ranch on a false pretense. Thomas finds out pretty quickly the real reason he has been invited to Hollister’s home.

Hollister is enjoying talking about Jane telling Thomas she has been indicted for espionage, treason, and murdering her husband. But then he asks “What if it’s all lies?” As he continues his story Thomas thinks this is all part of a film and does not realize how much danger he is in until someone commits suicide.

One thing you do not want to be part of the “Hamlet List.” This is where you have to read the book to find out - but I can tell you it is worth reading!

A page-turner, Koontz has proven again that he is extremely talented, imaginative, and every bit intriguing as his books.

If you are a fan of Koontz novels, you will NOT be disappointed.

I was provided this book for free in exchange for my honest opinion.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book for anyone who loves a good thriller mystery. 📕👍🏼

I GIVE IT A 5 STAR: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

So here we are the last book by Dean Koontz in the Jane Hawk’s series is out, which means we have to say goodbye to Jane. It’s a long and sorrow goodbye. I’ve read all the books in the series and it hit me hard when I find out “The Night Window” will the last.

I wanted not to like this book. I told myself that I shouldn’t, inside me, however, I knew otherwise. It’s an engaging story, and Dean Koontz is a brilliant storyteller who never stops producing entertaining books. Personally, I found, ‘The Night Window’ to be his best, after the debut book ‘The Silent Corner.’ Jane Hawk is a strong female character, with a complicated personal life and ruined professional life all thanks to a cunning enemy, the Techno Arcadians.

The Arcadians are implanting humans with chips, deleting their memories and essentially turning them into slaves. The Night Window will terrify you, surprise you, and hold your attention. What more can you ask for? Not a thing. It’s a bittersweet ending to an awesome series.

It is hard to believe that this five-book to date series encompasses less than three weeks in the life of Jane Hawk. Yet by the time we reach the final chapter, it feels as if Jane has been in a battle for years, with each day encompassing decisions that would cripple an average person.

Vikram Rangnekar, who barely registered in previous books is front and center in “The Night Window”. With his brilliance and charming innocence, they take on the Techno Arcadians from the inside and in doing so, upends the group which has altered memories and turning people into slaves of evil.

There were a couple of new characters added and the return of favorites. All of which leads the reader on an endless ride in untraceable vehicles with brief respites so we can run to our dictionaries for a vocabulary lesson. There are cringe-worthy parts when it comes to the actions of some characters, no more so than the man handing out random acts of cruelty, but then again, it wouldn’t be a Knootz novel if there wasn’t evil among evil.

Though the author gives insight from previous novels, this is a series that must be read from the first book. The people, the places, and the reasoning all flow in a sick and sometimes disjointed way, but it is all there, laid out in occasional gory detail but that is helped along with a bit of humor on the side.

The Night Window was a seriously crazy ride and a fantastic end to the Jane Hawk books. The buildup from the first four books continues and comes to an explosive head.
Right up to the end readers are kept on the edge of their seats. All the big questions get answered, and in a very satisfying way.
I highly recommend the entire Jane Hawk series - each book is a pulse-pounding, nerve-wracking adventure. Jane Hawk is the female hero we need more of - she kicks ass and takes names and always keeps her priorities straight. The Night Window is pure adrenaline and I didn't want to put it down!

My favorite books of Dean Koontz

I've read author Koontz's books for years - enjoyed a good portion of them, especially his earlier works, and disliked quite a few. I do believe that of all the books he's written, I enjoyed the Jane Hawk series the most.

Before starting this book I went back and either read or re-read the previous four. I'm glad that I did. Even though I'd read three of them before and remembered quite a bit, I got even more out of them this time plus got to finish the series.

Even though Koontz gets a little flowery in the books at times, this is still a excellent series.

I loved protagonist Jane Hawk, at first out to prove her beloved husband didn't commit suicide, and then as she digs deeper into an epic conspiracy, she carries on not just to protect her young son but because it's the right and ethical thing to do.

You really should read the entire series if you're going to read this at all and you should read it in order.

I loved many of her side characters that added greatly to the story. And Koontz did a super job of developing all the characters.

I highly recommend this series and will be keeping it for my personal library.

I received this book from Random House through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.

What started as one woman's determination to prove that her husband didn't commit suicide comes to a gripping conclusion in The Night Window. We're five books in at this point, and I'll admit that this series has been up and down for me - mostly up, but it has had its moments where I wasn't sure how much further these characters could go. As it turns out, Koontz proves once again that he knows his stuff. Jane is still as fierce and intelligent as she's been from the beginning, but we get to glimpse her softer side here as she gets some help she didn't expect and finds allies in unlikely places. At points in the series, I had some doubt about just how human Jane actually was, she was beginning to come across as almost machine-like, almost invincible, so I enjoyed seeing her a little vulnerable as she goes for broke and makes her final moves. The story is lengthy, and of course it's filled with a bit more colorful prose than absolutely necessary, but this is Dean Koontz after all. It's also not a book I would consider as a standalone. So many things had to happen to get to the events in The Night Window, so I would definitely recommend reading the series in order. That said, the whole series a story well-worth the reading time, especially if you enjoy techno-thrillers. All in all, Jane Hawk's story is another great in a long line of greats from this author.

Action packed and emotion laden until the very end. I love Jane Hawk and this series. Jane is the protagonist that we all want to know and cheer for on her journey. This story held my thoughts for months waiting for it to released and then would not let me focus on anything else as I gobbled up the words to Jane and society’s conclusion with the nanospiders.

Each book in this series shows how dark the world can be, but it also full of beautiful moments within humanity... and this book, delivers that and more. So many new characters and returning characters demonstrate how easily harm can be done, but throughout this book and especially the end DK has shown the strength and goodness of humanity.

The role and strength of family, biological and chosen, is front and center and told through such an open and heartwarming lens. We have family of different races, ages, ethnicities, religion and more. That many are willing to trust in that family and help is beautiful and the premise to how successful Jane has been in each book. There is a sentence from a character who only appears for a few pages, but she comments how Jane is loved and people will be there to help when help is needed. While it is a simple statement, it is overwhelmingly the truest statement of the series. Through action, intrigue, the unknown, trust, betrayal, love, death and the pursuit of justice this story and this series took us through highs and lows. Jane Hawk, her friends and family, and this story is one of my all time favorites and I loved every minute of the ride.

Thank you NetGalley, Dean Koontz and Random House Publishing -Ballantine for the chance to read this story and share my opinions!

In the fifth and final book of the Jane Hawk series, Jane continues to try to collect proof to bring down the Arcadians. In the meantime, Hollister tries to stalk a filmmaker on the "Hamlet list" for his own amusement, and nothing goes according to plan.

I had first picked up this series with the prior novel, The Forbidden Door. I was able to dive in from there because there were summaries of events from prior novels mentioned, and this novel picks up pretty much right after the last one ends. The horror of the prior book is written off as a footnote, so I'm sure I missed a lot by not reading the first three books. This one is very much full of suspense and drama. There's Jane in one story thread, dodging Arcadians that want to bring her in, and she's joined by her former colleague Vikram, who had built back doors into various computer systems and is now planning to use them to help her reveal the truth. In another story thread, Jane's son Travis is in danger from an opportunistic thief that tends to maim and rape women if given the opportunity. In the third thread is Hollister taunting and chasing down the filmmaker Tom through the snow on his estate.

While reading this, the Hollister and Tom storyline seemed to be additional tension that wasn't entirely necessary. I don't enjoy seeing into Hollister's head, but I don't hold more value in money and property than in people, so that's likely the reason. He's truly a sociopath, and Dean Koontz writes really excellent and creepy sociopaths. He inevitably gets done in by his own pride, which is fascinating to see; given the allusions to Shakespeare's work, he would be more like Lady Macbeth. Jane is top form in this one and is something of a mentor to Vikram. As much as she didn't see the end of the novel coming, it makes perfect sense from a storytelling perspective. The conclusion felt almost too abrupt, given how the suspense had been built up over several novels, but truly exploring the fallout would likely take another novel or two.

The 5th and final book of the Jane Hawk series. In the final installment we finally find out who is behind the Techno Arcadians and there are a lot more pages devoted to the megalomaniac behind the revolution and the guys hunting down Jane Hawk. It has been a wild ride. I enjoyed this series and the character Jane Hawk. It has been interesting to see how the story would play out and how Jane could possibly stop the Techno Arcadians. Although I am sad to see Jane’s story end, five books was a perfect number of books to tell her story. This is a great series for anyone who enjoys fast paced thrillers. This isn’t a stand alone book series. It is a single story and each book builds upon the previous books. These books need to be read in order to know what is going on.

I thought this was a great ending to the series. Although it had several perspectives just as the previous books did, it was not confusing and the science was not overwhelming. There was a part at the end that felt a bit contrived, yet it was perfect in its own way. Unfortunately, I can't explain it any better than that without giving away the ending to not only this book but the whole series and that would be a shame. This series is definitely worth a read and it is complete now so it is the perfect time to work your way through it.

This is the fifth book of the Jane Hawk series, and really should be read as part of the series, not a stand-alone. I felt like the author did a good job reminding me about past events so that I didn't feel lost, but I don't think I would have felt completely satisfied with only this book.

The #1 thing I like about the Jane Hawk series is that we get a strong, smart woman who still makes mistakes (although not many), doesn't act like a man, but is not overly emotional and silly. That just feels rare.

Jane has been on the run for a long time, and the overwhelming opposition is closing in. She needs help, and in this installment it comes from a long-time friend who is an expert computer hacker, and really a great character in his own right. I also liked the side story of an up-and-coming filmmaker who is on the Hamlet list. I did not like the chapters with a pair of thugs who are pursuing Jane - they (the chapters and the thugs) were just way too sadistic for me.

I don't want to say much else about the plot because most would be spoilers. I do want to thank the publisher and netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book to read and review

A group of people that are members of the secret group known asTechno Arcadians have plans to make earth theirs. They have been removing people’s memories and their identies with nanotechnology implants turning them into “robotic” servants and sex slaves. Jane Hawk has been dishonored (wrongly) by the Techno Arcadians. No one knows except Jane about the Techno Arcadians. To keep her son safe, Travis, she leaves him with friends. Jane works with a resigned FBI employee, Vikram Rangenekar, who has acquired government secrets with his hacking skills. He has made several “back doors” to the government agencies he was loaned out to. While Jane and Vikram fight the Techno Arcadians, the billionaire behind the Techno Arcadians invites a young filmmaker to his Colorado home for sport. Unknown to the filmmaker, he is going to be hunted by the billionaire. The odds are against the filmmaker. Will he survive? There is another theme in the book that involves Jane’s son, Travis. Travis is being hunted by a misfit. Will Travis survive? Will Jane be able to win her fight against the Techno Arcadians?

Even though it may appear that the novel has too many themes going in the book, it doesn’t make the story less thrilling. I enjoyed the whole book. It did make me wonder if our technology could do this. If so, who would use it? Would anyone know it existed or would it be kept a secret? Don’t miss this book. It’s great reading!

THE NIGHT WINDOW is the conclusion to Dean Koontz' enormously riveting (and realistically terrifying) JANE HAWK Series. As this is the final novel in the Quintology, I really feared the ending, so throughout the novel I remained on tenterhooks. This series is so terrifying because IT'S ALL SO POSSIBLE, both in terms of the technology (if not already, soon) and even more intensely, because of the human failings and foibles, the Narcissism, the immense drive for power over others, the greed. Think Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great cloned into one, then that one multiplied. Such is the nature of the Arcadian conspiracy: to enslave all but a tiny percent of humanity, to erase individual freedom and free will. This horrifying prospect drives former FBI agent Jane Hawk to wage war against all Arcadians, no matter how high in government nor politically connected nor wealthy beyond comprehension.

“The Night Window” by Dean Koontz is the fifth and final book in the “Jane Hawk” series. In a masterpiece of construction, Koontz writes a story within the story to familiarize new readers with the good, the bad, and the Hamlet List. However, the series really explodes when read in order. All five books take place over a little less than a month, so the pace is intense, the action powerful, and the suspense penetrating. Koontz wraps up the series with intense action on every page. With technology advancing at a remarkable pace, Jane Hawk finds that nowhere is safe. Descriptions hint at the impending chaos. “People are dazzled by high tech, but there’s a dark side, dark and darker. What horror isn’t possible today … it’ll be possible tomorrow.”
The title “The Night Window” provides a subtle undercurrent. “The triple-pane floor-to-ceiling windows of Hollister’s study frame the rising plain to the west, the foothills, and the distant Rocky Mountains that were long ago born from the earth in cataclysm, now dark and majestic against a sullen sky. It is a view to match the man who stands at this wall of glass.”
Koontz is a master of word use and illustration, and his writing has a unique lyrical quality. After all, who but Koontz could describe a library as “The wisdom of millennia and numerous cultures was stacked on a grid maze of shelves flanking dimly lighted aisles in which no one searched for knowledge, all as quiet as an undiscovered pharaoh’s tomb in a pyramid drifted over by a thousand feet of sand.”
Readers are never far from the tension, and cannot forget trauma to come. “Meanwhile, there are mundane tasks to perform, obligations to address. For one thing, there is someone who needs to be killed.” Meticulously chosen words draw visual pictures that pull readers into the action, drama, and peril that surrounds Jane Hawk. Alternating points of view follow characters through the mundane and the murderous. As each character is introduced readers, get background information and character descriptions to allow an initial evaluation of each one’s participation, however, roles can change dramatically.
“The Night Window” brings to a close this saga of Jane Hawk, and readers eagerly wait for the next drama to begin. Even Koontz’s characters speak to his creative process “Life is a tapestry of tragedy and comedy, terror and fortitude, despair and joy, and it’s routinely more colorful and crazy than anything I— or anyone— could invent.”
The Jane Hawk books tend to be long, but every word has function, purpose, and beauty. I received a copy of “The Night Window” from Dean Koontz, Random House, and NetGalley. I recommend the entire series.

What a stunner of a finale! Book 5, the conclusion in the Jane Hawk series was inarguably the best. Don't get me wrong--I really enjoyed the previous installments--couldn't wait for the next and not unexpectedly leaves you breathless, spent, with a major book hangover.

If you started this series from Book 1, kudos! But even if you didn't, this would still function well as a standalone. Jane Hawk is an amazing young woman, cunning, intelligent, and capable who has a spectacular background in the FBI. But something went criminally wrong and she went rogue. Now she is desperately trying to save her son as well as expose the Techno-Arcadians whose nano-technology mission is to contain and control the population.

The author has a way of painting the good people very good. They are real, enormously empathetic, and you'd love to meet them in real life, including the ex-FBI guy Vikram Rangnekar. He is a white hat genius hacker. Then the other side, darker than dark, evil ego-maniac billionaire Wainwright Warwick Hollister. You begin rooting for Tom Buckle immediately, heart in your throat, he's an innocent for heaven's sake!

The chapters skip between scenarios with Hollister, Weatherwax, Jane and Vikram. In her mad dash to reveal and destroy the Arcadians, Jane had garnered somewhat of a sympathetic, independent following who are distrusting of the news and social media. Mustafa al-Yamani and Charles Douglas Weatherwax doggedly track Jane while Mustafa is being counseled by Weatherwax on the proper manners and accruements of the population of Long Island. Brooding about the proper after-shave among other upper-crust conundrums adds a bit of comical spice that cuts somewhat the horror of these two agents. Koontz balances the hate with love, the evil with good while discussing technology fascinatingly sinister and mind-blowingly mesmerizing. It can sound all too real.

And then the shocking conclusion, the only way Jane could see to expose something this massive, this evil. I couldn't believe what I was reading! It was brilliant and devastating. Koontz is the man. The master storyteller. Loved this series! It moves at a remarkable pace. I'm a grateful recipient of an uncorrected digital ebook download and loved the opportunity to read and review. Totally recommended.

This is the fifth book in the Jane Hawk Series and you really would want to read these in order. Mainly this series is about Jane, who is on a search to find out why her husband was killed and who did it. His death was set up to believe that he committed suicide but Jane knows better. She is hiding for her life depends on it as she is hunted by some government officials, who have a way to find thei koor enemy. Jane used her intelligence to outsmart the enemy. She is an ex F.B.I. agent and is a wanted fugitive. Jane's enemies are determined to see her dead or make her wish she was dead. The Arcadians are just pure evil. They use a drug and inflicts it into people, and then they have total mind control of them. They do it to those who they feel are a threat to society.
Dean Koontz brings Jane Hawk's one-woman war to an explosive climax as the rogue FBI agent wages her final battle against a terrifying conspiracy--for vengeance, for justice, and for humanity's freedom. At first, only Jane stood against the "Arcadian" conspirators, but slowly others have emerged to stand with her, even as there are troubling signs that the "adjusted" people are beginning to spin viciously out of control. Now, in the thrilling, climactic showdown that will decide America's future, Jane will require all her resources and more as she confronts those at the malevolent, impregnable center of power.

This book was super action packed. The books in this series, just get better and better. Make sure you have plenty of time on your hands because I didn't want to put this book down. This is a thriller series. I loved the writing style. This is a long book but the chapters are short and it has riveting suspense that makes it a fast paced read and it didn't take me long to finish it. My heart was pumping and I was holding my breath and coming up for air several different times to find out what was going to happen next.

I love Jane's character. She is an ass kicking heroine and doesn't seem to be afraid of any thing and truly trusts her instincts. I loved the dynamics of the characters.
I loved the ending. It was the perfect ending to the end of this series. Sadly, this is the last book of this series.

I highly recommend this series to thriller fans. Sadly, this is the last book of the series. So those that start this series are so lucky because you won't have to wait for the next book.

I want to thank NetGalley, Random House and Dean Koontz for the copy of this book in exchange for an honest review