Part One: Section One: Chapters 1 - 7 Summary

Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz begins with a mystery writer and his family. Marty Stillwater is a published author, recently interviewed by People Magazine, who loves his family and appreciates his privacy. When he begins having fugue like losses of time, he and his wife Paige are worried enough to send him to a physician, but the source of his blackouts and missing time have nothing to do with stress. On the other side of the country, a killer with Marty's DNA is working as a highly efficient assassin for a secret government agency. His targets are unknown to him, as is his past, his history, his family, or his life to date. Alfie is a blank slate. He's learned everything he knows from the programming he's received, and the movies he has...