Odd Apocalypse, Dean Koontz
Odd Apocalypse, Dean Koontz
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Odd Apocalypse

Bestseller

Author: Dean Koontz

Narrator: David Aaron Baker

Unabridged: 10 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/31/2012

Synopsis

Audie Award Nominee, Best Thriller/Suspense Category, 2013“Koontz gives [Odd Thomas] wit, good humor, a familiarity with the dark side of humanity—and moral outrage.”—USA TodayOnce presided over by a Roaring ’20s Hollywood mogul, the magnificent West Coast estate known as Roseland now harbors a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants—and their guests: Odd Thomas, the young fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, and Annamaria, his inscrutably charming traveling companion. Fresh from a harrowing clash with lethal adversaries, they welcome their host’s hospitality. But Odd’s extraordinary eye for the uncanny detects disturbing secrets that could make Roseland more hell than haven.Soon enough the house serves up a taste of its terrors, as Odd begins to unravel the darkest mystery of his curious career. What consequences await those who confront evil at its most profound? Odd only knows.“Odd Thomas is the greatest character Dean Koontz has ever created. He’s funny, humble, immensely likable, courageous, and just a joy to read about.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer“[Odd Thomas is] one of the most remarkable and appealing characters in current fiction.”—The Virginian-Pilot“Supernatural thrills with a side of laughs.”—The Denver Post

About Dean Koontz

Author Dean Koontz was born in Everett Pennsylvania in 1945. He has used various Pen names such as, Aaron Wolfe, Brian Coffey, David Axton, Deanna Dwyer, John Hill, K.R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols, Anthony North, Owen West and Richard Paige. His accomplished occupations include novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and poet. Most people were not aware of his many Pen names and various talents in literature besides novelist. Koontz genres of choice are suspense, horror and science fiction thrillers. He has had 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks making it to #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list. According to the Dean Kootnz official website, he has sold more than 450 million copies of his books.

A little known fact about Dean Koontz is that he had hair transplantation in the late intos. Many of his novels are set in or around Orange County, California where he lives with his wife Gerda, in Newport Coast in an estate named Pelican Hills. His reported annual salary is $25 million.1990

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew on September 07, 2019

It took me a very long time to finish this. That is a bad thing! I had very little interest in getting back to this one every time I was away from it. The book before this (Odd Interlude) was my favorite in the series so far and gave me high hopes that the series would finish strong. I hate to say tha......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on September 03, 2012

The original Odd Thomas book is one of my absolute favorites. However, the sequels have all been a bit too "odd" and hard to follow. This last one was no exception, in fact, I found it even harder to follow than the last two. I think part of the reason I enjoyed book 1 so much was because of the rel......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on July 03, 2019

I have such mixed feelings about this. I love spending time with the odd one and I'm loving the newly introduced characters, I love all the classic book titles thrown into the text but the more I read of Dean Koontz the more awkward I find his style of writing. I seem to spend far longer on his 500......more

Goodreads review by Julie on August 21, 2012

I love the Odd Thomas books overall. However, what this book showed me above all is that I love the first trilogy of the Odd Thomas books. (Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd). Each of those were written as complete stories showing sweet, gentle but capable Odd Thomas fighting the supernatural for......more

Goodreads review by Annette on October 10, 2012

Why do I keep coming back to Odd, despite my general aversion to all but the tamest of the horror genre?* One word: humor. I cannot help but love a book in which the main character spouts off about wanting to strangle mimes, "like all mentally stable citizens," assures himself that the frightful cry......more

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