TY - BOOK AU - Koontz,Dean R. TI - Prodigal son: a novel T2 - Dean Koontz's Frankenstein SN - 0553593323 (pbk.) PY - 2009///, c2005 CY - New York PB - Bantam Books KW - Detectives KW - Louisana KW - New Orleans KW - Fiction KW - Frankenstein (Fictitious character) KW - Monsters KW - New Orleans (La.) KW - Horror fiction KW - gsafd N2 - He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. he arrives in New orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Decucalion's path will lead him to detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire race of killers who are much more--and less--than human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Helios--once known as Frankenstein ER -