Koko

Peter Straub

Apr 2011 · Anchor

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

This book is a thrilling ride from beginning to end. Straub sheds light on how many people have been hopelessly damaged, and how many of those could be able to turn into perpetrators themselves. He takes the reader on an endless ride of how this could be possible, of how people react differently to trauma, of how you may never really KNOW someone else, and, of course, of how war twists and turns lives forever. It is a gripping read!

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.