ODD THOMAS By Dean Koontz

Published : 2004
Pages : 420
Overall Mark : 8/10

Odd Thomas lives in the little town of Pico Mundo, and possessed the uncanny ability to sense creatures called bodachs, spirits who hang around with those who are either soon to be dead or are soon to kill! When he sees a man named Robert Robertson, aka. "Fungus Man", being followed around town with his own entourage of bodachs, and is then threatened by the man, Odd decides to confide in the Chief of Police who keeps his house under careful watched. But when Fungus Man turns up dead in Odd’s bathtub, he realises that something worse than he could possibly imagine maybe about to happen!

This is possibly one of Koontz’s most original novels - although there is a slight underlying feeling of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone - and clearly this was popular as it has two sequels already. This book flows very quickly and very fluidly, with only one or two chapters that felt like filler, and it has a nice surprise double-bluff ending.