Odd Thomas

Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz

The 400 million copy worldwide bestseller Dean Koontz is at his very best in this critically-acclaimed page-turner – soon to be a major motion picture. Find out why Odd Thomas is the master storyteller’s most-loved creation.Odd by name, a hero by nature.He’s Odd. Odd Thomas, to be precise. Genius fry-cook at the Pico Mundo grill; boyfriend to the gorgeous Stormy Llewellyn – and possibly the only person with a chance of stopping one of the worst crimes in the bloody history of murder…Something evil has come to the desert town that Odd and Stormy call home. It comes in the form of a mysterious man with a macabre appetite, a filing cabinet full of information on the world’s worst killers, and strange, hyena-like shadows following him wherever he goes. Odd is worried. He knows things, sees things – about the living, the dead and the soon to be dead. Things that he has to act on. Now he’s terrified for Stormy, himself and Pico Mundo. Because he knows that on Wednesday August 15, a savage, blood-soaked whirlwind of violence and murder will devastate the town.Today is August 14. And Odd is far from sure he can stop the coming storm…

To the Old Girls:

Mary Crowe, Gerda Koontz,

Vicky Page, and Jana Prais.

We’ll get together. We’ll

nosh. We’ll tipple. We’ll

dish, dish, dish.

Hope requires the contender

Who sees no virtue in surrender.

From the cradle to the bier,

The heart must persevere.

—The Book of Counted Joys

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u3564c0df-fad0-5d55-9b75-84e5950fe126)

Dedication (#ua22e6612-e772-5a38-8e54-b619510f71b6)

Epigraph (#uf28e1551-0951-5163-9e0b-0fd1a7496ed2)

Chapter 1 (#uc127d589-a6d7-5e56-a08c-439b3992cf94)

Chapter 2 (#u33515cb2-6cfd-54cb-b2a6-d430a1516ab4)

Chapter 3 (#u4fbc1c51-5c81-57df-bdd8-56118b63c36e)

Chapter 4 (#u19e3e534-ef36-5f75-a90e-1297236759af)

Chapter 5 (#u6d71ef87-42a2-5a2f-b42b-89dfcc3d3150)

Chapter 6 (#u82bc54bf-3fa9-5622-af3c-8f6f2f655074)

Chapter 7 (#u9cd1dabe-76b2-5cf3-8f29-a1143bb13976)

Chapter 8 (#ub956b198-4705-57d6-9450-86cb8ef4701a)

Chapter 9 (#u92098f3a-7f80-5348-9023-45c076b19a53)

Chapter 10 (#u09c1318f-4e7e-5a85-95fe-33f8988273a3)

Chapter 11 (#u8de8a73e-6a01-599f-a3a5-6574e0207b55)

Chapter 12 (#ud4a7bd47-f254-5545-aa42-e9ebfad2d885)

Chapter 13 (#u10f772a7-1d57-5275-836b-f801e4967e91)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)

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