Would you like your own guardian angel?

The next book I am reviewing is called Lightning by Dean Koontz
This was another great suggestion by my very smart and intuitive girlfriend. So lets all thank her.

This book, from the opening pages, is an interesting story of love, and surviving. It begins with a drunken doctor who is about to go try to deliver a baby, even though he knows hes too drunk and will probably screw things up. However he is stopped by a blond man who really only wants to prevent the man from killing the baby. The man ties him up and pours out all his liquor. So anyway, the baby is born but the mother dies in childbirth, leaving the father to take care of baby Laura.
Skip forward eight years and Dad and Laura are getting robbed by some junky who says he wants to rape Laura. He gets shot in the head by the same blond man, who apparently is protecting Laura from all harm. He keeps showing up at certain times, and protects her, usually violently. Her father dies of a heart attack and she lives out her teenage years in an orphanage. During that time, the blond man again shows up to help her, this time to beat the tar out of a pedophile who works at the orphanage. Laura grows up despite some horrible instances, and eventually marries a nice man and has a kid. Well of course its not over for her yet. I dont want to continue any further with the description, because a lot gets revealed and it wont be fun for you to read it.
This book has an original-ish idea, and the author does some great character development. The story gets pretty confusing, but there are some really scary and really funny moments all tied together with this crazy premise. So be careful if you said you would like to have a guardian angel, because it just might not be what it seems.