Odd Thomas (Signed First Printing!)

Dean Koontz

ISBN 10: 0553802496 / ISBN 13: 9780553802498

Published by Bantam, 2003

About this Item

First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line: A Very Good book in a Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author to DK's personal bookplate! An outstanding copy of this wildly popular novel, uncommon in collectible condition, particularly signed; enhanced by Koontz's personal bookplate. This copy is in very good condition showing some mild rubbing and sunning to the lower board edges, a couple of small dents around the edges, and a few spots of faint soiling to the exterior text block. Housed in a crisp and clean fine dust jacket that shows only a couple of faint scratches to the glossy finish of the panels (pardon the glare to the pics; a tough jacket to photograph!). Overall, a very collectible copy of a book getting tough to find signed; Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a fresh Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

Seller Inventory # 2938

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Odd Thomas (Signed First Printing!)
• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553802496
• ISBN 13: 9780553802498
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Horror
  • Books Into Movies

About this title

Synopsis

Now a major motion picture starring Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe, and Addison Timlin, and directed by Stephen Sommers

“The dead don't talk. I don't know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it’s a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd’s otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different.

A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd’s deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.

Today is August 14.

In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmares—and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere.

About the Author

Dean Koontz, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives with his wife, Gerda, and the enduring spirit of their golden retriever, Trixie, in southern California.