Finished Reading Koontz's By the Light of the Moon

I just finished reading Dean Koontz's 2002 novel By the Light of the Moon.  In a very speculative, nonscientific way, it explores how nanotechnology can be used and abused to affect the basic constitution and behavior of humans.  A man and his autistic brother are abducted by a mysterious elderly man who seems to be a scientist.  He gives them a shot of some mysterious substance and leaves them to try to escape their captivity on their own in time to avoid a deadly attack by another party.  They eventually link up on the road with a woman who has had the same traumatic experience.  The story develops with the three discovering how the injection has changed them and the nature of the injections, with involve nanotechnology...along with the role that the "mad scientist" who had kidnapped them had played earlier in their lives.

By the Light of the Moon strongly hints at a sequel with the way that the protagonists come out at the end of their ordeal, but none has ever been written as far as I know.  Also, a late-night radio talk show host was introduced into the story whom Koontz obviously patterned after long-time Coast-to-Coast AM host Art Bell.

By the Light of the Moon isn't very long and provides some good escapist reading even if it doesn't exactly convince me about nanotechnology...