Deucalion is the creature Victor Frankenstein built over two centuries ago. He was the first and the prototype, assembled from the dead and brought to life by lightning. In Koontz’s version, the bolt that animated him also gave him something unexpected — a connection to a deeper reality that grants him abilities even his creator does not understand.
He spent much of his long life in a Tibetan monastery, where he learned patience and developed the moral compass that Victor never gave him. He is enormous, scarred, and gentle until he has reason not to be. When he discovers that Victor — now calling himself Victor Helios — is building a new race of engineered beings in New Orleans, Deucalion returns to civilization to stop him.
In the series, Deucalion acts as both the muscle and the conscience. He can appear and disappear at will, moving between locations through some quantum trick of his altered biology. He allies with detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison, providing them with knowledge of Victor’s methods and capabilities that no one else could offer.
Reading Order
See the complete Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein reading order for all books in the series.