Koko - (Blue Rose Trilogy) by Peter Straub (Paperback)

About the Book

The fourth installment of Straub's Blue Rose series is now beautifully repackaged. Four veterans of Vietnam are as different as men can be--yet all are bound eternally by a single shattering secret. Now they join again on a quest that takes them from the Far East to New York . . . hunting an inhuman ghost of the past which has risen from nightmare darkness to kill. Reissue.

Book Synopsis

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story comes "an inspired thriller" (The Washington Post) about four Vietnam vets linked by a shattering secret and their global hunt to track down a brutal killer.

Koko. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They were Vietnam vets--a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a devastating secret. Now, they have been reunited and are about to embark on a quest that will take them from Washington, D.C., to the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York, searching for someone from the past who has risen from the darkness to kill and kill and kill.

Review Quotes

"Brilliantly written.... An inspired thriller.... His finest work."
--The Washington Post

"A masterpiece of terror."
--Los Angeles Times

"Completely plotted, thickly layered evil.... The ultimate horror."
--The New York Times Book Review

"A dead-center hit.... A gripping, enthralling, nonstop read."
--San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author

PETER STRAUB is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. In the Night Room and Lost Boy, Lost Girl are winners of the Bram Stoker Award, as is his collection 5 Stories. Straub is the editor of numerous anthologies, including the two-volume American Fantastic Tale from the Library of America. He died in 2022.