The Night Window: A Jane Hawk Novel

This is the last book in the series, I found it very enjoyable.

Fantastic conclusion to a fantastic series of books.

Really enjoying this series!

"The Night Window" by Dean Koontz is the fifth and final installment in the series about Jane Hawk, a former FBI agent who discovers a conspiracy by a group that wants to take over the world.I found the previous four books mediocre. This last book did fit in with the rest, but it has a very strong ending, which gives it an extra star.This time we meet the top leader of the group, the creator of the plan to assassinate anyone who might be heading in a direction non-conforming his views, or brainwashing them into slaves. He is thwarted by his last victim in a side story.In the meantime, Jane Hawk herself is assisted by a hacker, while her son is still hidden but discovered by a freelancer trying to make some money out of the situation.The entire series is reminiscent of a Michael Crichton techno thriller. Koontz again inserts a small, semi-supernatural element in the form of strange hallucinations that serve as foreshadowing. He also plays briefly with the final fate of the main character; does she stay alive or not?The visual end reads very quickly, and actually passes too quickly compared to the rest of the book. Looking back, there are a lot of characters in this series, and it would be interesting to reread these books and make a mind map of everyone passing the revue and how they are linked to each other.

There's a bit of a Dean-ex-Machina plot-twist-advancing "coincidence" which begs the question: By dint of which words, spoken by Cornell and Riggowitz, possibly to or about Travis, would Bobby Deacon learn Travis was Jane Hawk's son?! Would they really have used her full name in any private conversations between them? In speaking to or with Travis himself, would they have said anything even remotely like "Hey, kid: your mother, Jane Hawk, loves you!"? or "When do you suppose my mother, Ms. Jane Hawk, might call us next?" Even "Listen, brat: I told you before, your Mom is the world's most wanted women, so, no, you probably won't hear from her in the next few days!" seems a little stretched. More quibbles: on p.#263 of the hardcover, why didn't Jane have a pair of binoculars, or at least a simple monocular, with her to ID those she found suspicious? Isn't she ex-FBI? That seems pretty basic. Finally, I'd like to ask: if "DeSoto" was an invented name, why would Ricky be *proud* of it being so "American - like the car!"? Is Dean getting senile, or is he surrounded by sycophants who won't proof-read for him any more? Other than that - a good book.