"Hideaway" pg 1-37

   The new book that i have begun to read is "Hideaway" by Dean Koontz.  Immediately after starting to read this book you are hooked are story and it is hard to stop reading.  To begin you are introduced to a married couple whose names are Lindsey and Hatch Harrison.  They both are still struggling to get over the death of their son which took place a number of years back.  In the book you meet them on their way home from Big Bear Lake in the middle of winter.  The weather is getting pretty bad on the way home and it is hard for Hatch to keep control of the car.  They see a truck driver struggling to drive his deliver truck of beer up the mountain.  Hatch begins to slow down when he looses control of the car completely and he and his wife begin sliding toward the truck.  Just as it looks as they will miss the truck the back end slams into the truck and sends them spinning down the road on this mountain.  They come to a stop by slamming into a guardrail.  When it looks like things cant get worse the car tips over the edge and slides down the side of the mountain into a ravine and into a frozen river.
   At this point you get to meet the driver of the truck whose name is Bill Cooper.  Here you learn that Bill has been drinking about while making his deliveries and isnt in the best shape to be driving.  He also comes to the relization that he shouldn't of tried to make his deliver in weather as bad as this.  Bill calls for help and follows the skid marks that he sees on the ground to the guardrail where the Harrison's car went over. At the bottom of the ravine he sees the car floating down the river and doesnt move from there because he is afraid he will lose sight of the car.
   By the time help finally arrives Lindsey has been able to drag her unconscious husband from the sinking car. She grabs a hold of a rock and she begins to see the flash lights of the rescuers coming to get her.  They are able to get both her and her husband out of the water and on their way to the hospital.  By this time Lindsey is pretty sure that her husband has drowned and is already dead but she won't give up hope.  When they get to the hospital one of the nurses tells her that has in fact died.