"Complexly plotted, thickly layered evil… the ultimate horror!"NEW YORK TIMES 'KOKO …' Only four men knew what it meant. Vietnam vets. One was a doctor. One was a lawyer. One was a working stiff. One was a writer. All were as different as men could be – yet all were bound eternally together by a single shattering secret. And now they are joined together again on a quest that could take them from the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York, hunting an inhuman ghost of the past risen from nightmare darkness to kill and kill … "An enormously entertaining and scary story… rich, complex, dark and tough to put down."NEW YORK DAILY NEWS "A dead-centre hit… A gripping, enthralling, non-stop read."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "A blood-chilling hair-raiser!"LOS ANGELES TIMES

‘Brilliantly written… an inspired thriller… his finest work.’ Washington Post ‘Complexly plotted, thickly layered evil… the ultimate horror!’ New York Times ‘A blood-chilling hair-raiser!’ Los Angeles Times

• Previously published by Penguin, this modern classic of dark thriller writing is to be a key part of the major repackaging of the Straub backlist • Timed to benefit from the paperback publication of his new novel, Mr X, and the run-up to the hardback publication of Peter Straub’s major new collaboration with Stephen King – BLACK HOUSE, the sequel to their previous worldwide bestseller The Talisman • In Koko, Mystery and The Throat – which together form the loosely linked Blue Rose trilogy – Straub moved away from the traditional horror of his early work to focus on the evil that lurks in the human heart, to spectacular effect. This is the first time all three have been available from HarperCollins • Koko was the winner of the 1989 World Fantasy Award Competition: The Talisman; Black House (Talisman Book 2). Stephen King;