Product Description

The third Odd Thomas novel from Dean Koontz, following 'Odd Thomas' and 'Forever Odd'. Odd Thomas is looking for peace. But in the silence and snow of the mountains, danger and desperation haunt him still ! Odd, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly and the downright strange, is in self-imposed exile. The tragic events that took the love of his life have led Odd from his sun-bleached desert home of Pico Mundo to a monastery in the High Sierra. It's December and the remote abbey is besieged by icy winds and snow. As ever where Odd Thomas goes strangeness goes too. A white dog named Boo befriends him -- as does the ghost of Elvis. And a world-famous physicist is conducting experiments in the catacombs of the abbey. Could this be why Odd can once again see bodachs, shadowy harbingers of violence? They prowl the halls, suggesting terror to come. But what form will it take? And how will Odd defeat an enemy that eclipses any he has met before?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10182 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Review
'Dean Koontz straddles the genres, and pretty successfully, too ! Odd Thomas is a short-order cook in a restaurant in Pico Mundo, a small town in the Mohave Desert. He also has an instinct for people who are going to cause mayhem. And when one of them turns up and orders breakfast, the novel kicks into gear ! Odd Thomas is certainly a page-turner -- this is a read-at-a-sitting novel -- with a terrific final twist.' The Observer 'There's surprise after surprise, including a killer finale ! a read-in-one-go novel.' Independent on Sunday on Velocity 'Velocity hits its pace from the first page and races through to a suitably climactic ending.' Sydney Sunday Telegraph 'Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler.' The Times 'Psychologically complex, masterly and satisfying.' The New York Times 'A modern Swift ! a master satirist.' Entertainment Weekly 'If Stephen King is the Rolling Stones of novels, Koontz is the Beatles.' Playboy 'Dean Koontz writes page-turners, middle-of-the-night sneak-up-behind-you suspense thrillers. He touches our hearts and tingles our spines.' Washington Post Book World 'Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose. Serious writers might do well to study his technique.' New York Times Book Review 'Fast-paced and dark ! Koontz knows we live in a world where evil delights in justifying itself ! Classic literature that deserves a place on the bookshelf beside Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.' California Literary Review 'Koontz is writing right where popular culture swells into something larger, just as it did for Homer, Shakespeare, and Dickens. He's got the gift.' Australian 'Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular fiction to explore the human condition.' USA Today 'Inspires both chills and serious thought ! has the power to scare the daylights out of us.' People 'The poet laureate of paranoid pop fiction.' Denver Post 'Koontz achieves a literary miracle ! stunning physical description, unique turns of phrase.' Boston Globe 'Near Dickensian powers of description.' Los Angeles Times

From the Back Cover
Odd Thomas is looking for peace. But in the silence and snow of
the mountains, danger and desperation haunt him still ...

Odd, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly, is in
self-imposed exile. The tragic events that took the love of his life have
led Odd from his sun-bleached desert home to a remote monastery in the icy
High Sierra.

As ever, where Odd Thomas goes strangeness goes too. A white dog named Boo
befriends him - as does the ghost of Elvis. And a world-famous physicist is
conducting experiments in the catacombs of the abbey. Could this be why Odd
can once again see bodachs, shadowy harbingers of violence? They prowl the
halls, suggesting terror to come.

But what form will it take? And how will Odd defeat an enemy that eclipses
any he has met before?

About the Author
Dean Koontz is an international household name whose hugely entertaining parables for our times have been bestsellers in many countries, selling seventeen million copies each year. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he lives with his wife Gerda and their dog Trixie in southern California.

Customer Reviews

2 out of 3 ain't bad?
Oh dear, it all started so well with two cracking book's concerning Odd Thomas, this one I'm sorry to say is a slower pace & without the previous book's characters to lift the storyline, it make's it a real struggle to enjoy this one & once or twice I was tempted to give up as my interest strayed. But 2 out 3 is not bad, I just hope the fourth book gets back on track, otherwise stick to "Odd Thomas" & "Forever Odd".

And Odd it really was !!!!
The title gives it away - Really ODD
I thought that there had to be something as Koontz is a huge best seller - So I gave it a try - Big mistake -
Story is so slow as to be pedestrian - Maybe me being a cynic did not help - He can see dead people - Right !!!
Well I do love things like this in spite of not being a believer - but when Elvis turned up enough was enough - So inspite of reading over 300 pages I could take no more and did not even have the energy to find out who dunnit -
the other irritation was the book seemed a base for Koontz to project his views on life without fear of any contradiction - Oh how wonderful for him

Boring Odd
The 3rd in the series of Odd Thomas books. This one definately lacked the sparkle of the previous two.

It seemed to take nearly two thirds of the book before it actually got going with a plot that really wasn't up to Koontz's usual high standard.

A nice change I suppose that the bodachs didn't actually see a huge death toll - maybe this is why I found it disappointing.

The plot, in my opinion, didn't follow very well and all of a sudden Odd and the Russian had worked out who the Neverwas and the ending was coming to a close.

I found Odd rather dull and at times irritating in this book and didn't really care what happened to him or the other characters. Sadly, I feel it was a bit of a chore to read but felt I had to read it in order to read the 4th in the series which I sincerely hope improves on this disaster.