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Their mission: to find and bring home fellow vet Tim Underhill, whom they're sure is ""Koko,"" a killer ravaging Southeast Asia. Koko stuffs playing cards in his victims' mouths, just like they used to in Nam; who else could he be but tormented, missing Underhill?. Peter Straub is considered one of the greatest thriller writers of our time; second only perhaps to the master Stephen King. Yet, somehow I missed never reading anything by Straub. When Anchor Books re-released Koko, the first book in the “Blue Rose Trilogy,” I jumped at the chance to review it. Bestselling author Peter Straub's Koko is a gripping psychological thriller in which horror and paranoia are indistinguishable from reality. 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.
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