Audio Book Description:
The legend began in the obscurelittle town of Pico Mundo. A fry cook named Odd was rumoredto have the extraordinary ability to communicatewith the dead. Through tragedy and triumph, exhilaration and heartbreak, word of Odd Thomas`s gifts filtered far beyond Pico Mundo, attractingunforgettable new friends-and enemies of implacable evil. With great gifts comes the responsibility to meet great challenges. But no mere human beingwas ever meant to face the darkness that now stalks the world-not even one as oddly special as Odd Thomas. After grappling with the very essence ofreality itself, after finding the veil separating him from hissoul mate, Stormy Liewellyn, tantalizingly thin yet impenetrable, Odd longed only toreturn to a life of quiet anonymity with his two otherworldly sidekicks-his dog Booand a new companion, one of the fewwho might rival his old palElvis. But a true hero, howeverhumble, must persevere. Hauntedby dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to asmall California coastal town where nothing is as it seems.Now the forces arrayed againsthim have both official sanction and an infinitely moresinister authority...and in this dark night of the soul, dawnwill come only after the most shattering revelations of all.
