Forever Odd

Forever Odd
Dean Koontz

The international Number One bestseller Dean Koontz’s most-loved character, Odd Thomas, is back. A gripping and powerful thriller – full of suspense, mystery and horror.Evil never backs down, so neither can he.Odd Thomas, that unlikely hero, once more stands between us and our worst fears.Odd never asked to communicate with the dead – they sought him out, in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, which he can never leave. He has already lost the love of his life; and now a childhood friend has disappeared and the worst is feared.But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding his friend, he discovers something far worse than a dead body. Evil personified has come to visit this desert community of souls both living and dead…

This book is for Trixie, though she will never read it. On the most difficult days at the keyboard, when I despaired, she could always make me laugh. The words good dog are inadequate in her case. She is a good heart and a kind soul, and an angel on four feet.

Unearned suffering is redemptive.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

Look at those hands, Oh God, those hands toiled to raise me.

—Elvis Presley at his mother’s casket

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u55acc591-ce84-5ca7-ae72-54bdd4212f74)

Dedication (#u6e62dc38-006b-50fd-9ef8-c2411e736a59)

Epigraph (#u13f81f76-380f-57c2-ae52-ead23cc167ee)

Chapter 1 (#u92c6bae1-fa91-58b6-ab4a-93c455fcd28e)

Chapter 2 (#ua6e16d11-1d28-52f3-bbce-1321f35736ce)

Chapter 3 (#u5e6a1da5-0257-5b96-9d0d-a2e7801c8fcb)

Chapter 4 (#u114120c3-37e7-5593-aeda-f74948fbf881)

Chapter 5 (#u82ff3c83-c34d-5528-9f36-a2a07a36328e)

Chapter 6 (#u91e8869c-5f66-579d-a519-b63cc239198c)

Chapter 7 (#u7b3eeb0d-8261-5f09-b7c6-8a2adab9caa1)

Chapter 8 (#u5e988d9c-f019-5f92-9e38-6a69dc861334)

Chapter 9 (#u28617d83-f20d-52bd-8c14-1f2d4c68fd7f)

Chapter 10 (#uac181a66-a06d-5070-b937-78562992aad0)

Chapter 11 (#u737bfabd-2da4-5293-b5d9-e57b58ecf941)

Chapter 12 (#ufe974bf8-059f-566c-b533-f188a4ba1d3f)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

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)

Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 32 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 35 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 36 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 37 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 38 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 39 (#litres_trial_promo)