Watchers, by Dean Koontz

     Continuing my survey of best-selling authors to learn from them, I read Watchers by Dean Koontz.  Several reviewers mentioned a great conclusion and I was expecting all the story lines to come together into a complex resolution.  However, the secondary characters only came into the main story in a sequential fashion and were dealt with quickly, which was disappointing.

     The most interesting characters are Lem Johnson, a government agent, and The Outsider, a lab-created intelligent killing machine.  These two characters are the only ones with internal conflicts of values, but neither of these inner conflicts is explored in any great detail.  The main characters, Nora and Travis, overcome personality obstacles early, but after that they only face external obstacles from the other characters.