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Odd Thomas is one of Dean Koontz's more heavily moralised horror thrillers, but is nonetheless charming and terrifying. Odd is an adolescent on the brink of adulthood who sees dead people and has a worryingly precise moral sense; the police chief of the small town of Pico Mundo--little world--relies on him heavily. Hardly has the book opened before a dead teenager leads Odd to her killer--and we are given to understand that this is the sort of thing that happens all the time. He does not just see the dead, however; he sees the thrill-seeking dark spirits that hang around unpleasant events, and he notices, on this particular day, that there are a lot more of them about than usual. Odd is haunted by dreams of dead bowling-alley staff and he wonders whether this might just be the day when the bowling-alley massacre takes place. The tone of voice here is almost saccharine, almost sinister--Odd and his friends and his sweetheart are vivid, cute and self-righteous. This is a bizarrely paced thriller because it follows the vagaries of an eccentric with his own ways of investigating things--it is as odd as its hero's name. --Roz KaveneyRead More

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    The new paperback of the bestselling thriller from Dean Koontz one of the most acclaimed and popular authors of modern times. In Odd Thomas he has created a character whose unique voice will live for generations to come. Odd Thomas takes pride in his work as a fry cook. His fame has spread bringing strangers to the restaurant in Pico Mundo. Odd cannot say what it is that disturbs him about this particular stranger but his sixth sense is alert ! This is a man with an appetite for operatic terror. The violence he craves is of the most extreme variety: multiple untimely deaths spiced with protracted horror. Tomorrow. Odd's fears are first for Stormy Llewellyn his one true love. Stormy believes that our passage through this world is intended to toughen us for the next life -- that the many terrors we know here are an inoculation against worse in the world to come. But Odd Thomas knows more than Stormy about this world. Many people in Pico Mundo think he is some sort of psychic perhaps a clairvoyant a seer something. None but a handful know that he sees the restless dead those with unfinished business and sometimes plenty of postmortem rage. Tomorrow.The day begins as uncannily still as dawn on Judgment Day one breath before the sky cracks open. At once chilling and deeply moving Odd Thomas is a brilliantly observed chronicle of good and evil in our time of illusion and everlasting truth.

  • 0007130740
  • 9780007130740
  • Dean Koontz
  • 16 August 2004
  • HarperCollins
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 432
  • New Ed
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