Velocity, by Dean Koontz shows the destruction of an ordinary man named Billy Wiles. Copyrighted in 2005; Koontz published Velocity. Being a bartender in a small town, Billy led close to an average life besides the fact that he killed his parents at age seventeen. With his wife Barabara in a coma, Billy mostly lives alone. After a day of work, Billy finds an anonomous note left on the dashboard of his car. It read, “If you take this note to the police, I will kill a lovely blond school teacher...if you don’t I will kill a charitable old woman... The choice is yours”(Koontz). Confused on whether it was a prank or not, Billy went to a lazy cop named Larry. It shows that Billy is worried but he doesn’t want to choose between deaths because he is afraid he will turn into the …show more content…
Steve, a perverted young man, worked as one of Billy’s employees at his bar. Billy was convinced it was Steve so he searched his place but found no good evidence. Tired and injured by the killer, he decided to interogate Zillis;in the end, he found nothing on Zillis so he let him go. Although Billy isn’t a psycopath, he knows the police system for being the killer of his abusive parents. Losing hope he decides to take a break and get coffee at a trucker’s stop. Listening to a group of trucker’s converstating, Billy heard a familiar word, “performance”. Quickly, he asked who they were talking about and he found out it was an artist named Valis. Valis, the tourist at Billy’s bar the day he found the note on his car.
The killer was in town for an “art show” so Billy traced him to his camper. Valis wanted Billy to join his murdering group but Billy chose not to become the monster he was scared to be; which made him kill Valis. Things were not over, Barabara was missing and Billy found her with Valis’s partner, Steve. Killing Zillis as well, he knew now that it was his choice to be good or