Velocity, Book Report 2: Choices

The book I am reading is Velocity by Dean Koontz. I really like the book so far. There’s this unknown, unseen, elusive psycho killer sending Billy Wiles, the main character, these notes. The first note that Billy gets says, “If you don’t take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blonde school teacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours.” He chose to not do anything about the very first note because he thought it was just a really sick joke executed by a coworker. It was not. Billy was really having trouble with deciding whether to act or not on the second note. He was debating with himself on the second note because the “choices” were between a young mother of two and an unmarried man who wouldn’t be missed much by the world. The choice was obvious to him; don’t go to the police so the mother would be saved. But little did he know, the killer had one of Billy’s friends, Lanny, in mind. I agree with Billy for making the choice that he did because Lanny had said to him about the note, “Are you going to choose to make two orphans?” I think that it is really twisted of the killer to have a person choose who dies, when there is not an obvious right and just choice. I hope that Billy eventually finds out something about the psycho killer to stop him so he doesn’t have to continue choosing life or death for people the killer picks.