Odd Hours

ODD HOURS: Dean Koontz: Bantam Books: Fiction: 352 pgs.

Odd Thomas is one of the most endearing characters I have encountered. He is humbly heroic, ironically funny, surprisingly kind, and ever hopeful despite the evil and darkness he regularly encounters. This is the fourth installment in the Odd Thomas series which follows the adventures of its hero who sees the dead along with other supernatural beings.

We last left Odd on the side of the highway with his ghost dog Boo and Frank Sinatra's ghost. Odd Hours picks up a month later in California. On an innocent walk along the pier, Odd meets up with a mysterious girl and several men who are up to no good...the kind of no good that may end civilization as we know it. Without a plan, as usual, Odd jumps headlong into a terrorist plot. I highly recommend this entire series with its fast pace and surprising depth.

CZ