Odd Thomas

Odd Thomas is a young fry cook in the desert town of Pico Mundo with a reluctant gift: the dead seek him out, though they cannot speak. When a stranger arrives surrounded by a horde of hyena-like shades heralding imminent catastrophe, Odd and his soul mate Stormy Llewellyn race against time to stop a gathering evil.

Odd Thomas tries to live a quiet life in Pico Mundo — but when a childhood friend disappears, he discovers something worse than a dead body. He embarks on a heart-stopping battle of wits against an enemy of exceptional cunning, where every sacrifice tips the balance between despair and hope.

Seeking peace at an isolated monastery, Odd Thomas is haunted when a sleeping child speaks a phrase that was a favorite of his lost love, Stormy Llewellyn. In the haunted halls, Odd is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature — and an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself.

Haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd Thomas is pulled inexorably to the sea and a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems. The forces arrayed against him now have both official sanction and a more sinister authority — and in this dark night of the soul, the most shattering revelations of all await.

Once presided over by a Roaring Twenties Hollywood mogul, the magnificent West Coast estate known as Roseland now harbors a reclusive billionaire and his faithful servants — and their guests, Odd Thomas and his inscrutably charming companion Annamaria. Odd's extraordinary sense for the uncanny detects disturbing secrets that could make Roseland more hell than haven.

In a sinister encounter with a rogue truck driver, Odd has a disturbing vision of a mass murder yet to be committed. Across California and into Nevada, Odd embarks on a road chase to prevent the tragedy — meeting eccentrics who become allies in a battle against a sociopath with a shadowy network of like-minded murderers whose resources seem almost supernatural.

Odd Thomas is back where it all started — because the time has come to finish it. His journey has taken him from Pico Mundo to places strange and terrible. Now, with those he cares for most surrounding him, the memory of his lost love haunting him, and one last vast and dreadful challenge awaiting, the wandering is done. Only the reckoning remains.