Brother Odd - Softcover

Koontz, Dean

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ISBN 10: 0007243510 ISBN 13: 9780007243518

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2006

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With over 400 million copies of his books sold worldwide, Dean Koontz is one of the most popular writers of our time. Read this page-turning, heart-breaking thriller to find why Odd Thomas is the master storyteller’s most-loved creation.

He sees what no one else does. He does what no one else can.

Odd, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly and the downright strange, is in self-imposed exile. Tragic events have led him from his sun-bleached desert home of Pico Mundo to a monastery in the High Sierra, searching for peace. It’s December and the remote abbey is besieged by icy winds and snow. But even in the silence of the mountains, danger and desperation haunt him still...

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 horror to come.

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

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Review:

‘Sensitively written, the plotting deft, the characters well thought out ... fantastically readable’ SFX

‘A great read’ News of the World

Praise for the Odd Thomas series:

‘The result is a blend of humour, humanity and horror, the classic Koontz concoction’ The Times

‘Odd Thomas is a superb character’ Independent

Praise for Dean Koontz:

‘Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler’ The Times

Synopsis:

This is the third Odd Thomas novel from Dean Koontz, following "Odd Thomas" and "Forever Odd". By popular demand, the story of the life and times of Odd Thomas continues. In flight from memories of his lost soul-mate Stormy Llewellyn, Odd is one of four guests at a monastery in the High Sierra. It's December. In contrast to the sunbleached desert town of Pico Mundo where Odd was born, icy winds and deep snow besiege the remote abbey. A white dog named Boo befriends Odd. The King of Rock 'n' Roll has followed him there and silently serenades man and dog. But, Elvis isn't the only spooky phenomenon in the place. One of the other guests is John Heineman, world-famous physicist, who years earlier left the secular world to become a monk - but he continues his physics experiments down in the 'corpseless catacombs' of the facility. Heineman had originally taken to the monastic life because he found the nature of reality, as quantum mechanics reveals it, so very weird, and so are his experiments. Added to this, bodachs are prowling the halls, and Odd knows what that means: an event of terrible violence is pending. He begins to fear that someone intends to kill all the monks in the abbey.

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