Odd Hours

Odd Hours
Dean Koontz

From the mind of Dean Koontz, the 400 million copy worldwide bestseller, comes this supernatural tale of good and evil, and life and death. Find out why Odd Thomas is the master storyteller’s most talked about creation.Strange times need strange heroes.Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds. He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites our understanding but often thwarts it.Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn there, he finds work as a cook and assistant to a once-famous film actor who, at eighty has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywood’s golden days.Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome. By day he senses a free-floating fear in the air of the town, as if unleashed by the crashing waves. But nothing prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before…

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2008

Copyright © Dean Koontz 2008

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Source ISBN: 9780007267552

Ebook Edition © 2013 ISBN: 9780007287314

Version: 2017-10-16

This fourth Odd adventure is dedicated to Bruce, Carolyn, and Michael Rouleau.

To Michael because he makes his parents proud.

To Carolyn because she makes Bruce happy.

To Bruce because he has been so reliable all these years, and because he truly knows what it means to love a good dog.

I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.

I learn by going where I have to go.

—Theodore Roethke, “The Waking”

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u3e90792a-d8ac-51c0-acce-dd34ef8ca0d6)

Copyright (#u9a17524e-f6a6-5519-9d3b-b2117170e409)

Dedication (#u12450d96-93f7-5be3-9bab-1880fc6512bd)

Epigraph (#u79b1ab40-3785-5c03-8bd3-ac4a4b1f0ae5)

Chapter 1 (#u2843aea8-ff58-58fb-bbfe-6d43aab4c6d4)

Chapter 2 (#ue6bc56f0-56c8-5676-814d-f5fe18329845)

Chapter 3 (#u72e73255-0d9e-5fec-8b9b-05b7fe646fd9)

Chapter 4 (#u078bf2c6-b406-53dd-8e0f-039c9599cf86)

Chapter 5 (#u7ad6d2ec-9611-583e-8638-b6ba35457c5f)

Chapter 6 (#u6652864d-5b09-586c-826d-c01e82adef97)

Chapter 7 (#u4d76b038-6752-535d-8d04-aa0f303be8a7)

Chapter 8 (#u0fcf8ee3-006c-5469-9a32-c411aaefa8ad)

Chapter 9 (#u06977325-bd76-5253-9c65-d99179d3bf4f)

Chapter 10 (#u58942ceb-b306-5bee-ae85-cefe3b82ab29)

Chapter 11 (#u5c4f141a-9f80-557b-b05a-8d998be1270a)

Chapter 12 (#u9a9e2604-0bd1-532f-ae90-5e7ef4c75316)

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Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)