Brother Odd

Brother Odd
Dean Koontz

With over 400 million copies of his books sold worldwide, Dean Koontz is one of the most popular writers of our time. Read this page-turning, heart-breaking thriller to find why Odd Thomas is the master storyteller’s most-loved creation.He sees what no one else does. He does what no one else can.Odd, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly and the downright strange, is in self-imposed exile. Tragic events have led him from his sun-bleached desert home of Pico Mundo to a monastery in the High Sierra, searching for peace. It’s December and the remote abbey is besieged by icy winds and snow. But even in the silence of the mountains, danger and desperation haunt him still…As ever, where Odd Thomas goes, strangeness goes too. A white dog named Boo befriends him – as does the ghost of Elvis. And a world-famous physicist is conducting experiments in the catacombs of the abbey. Could this be why Odd can once again see bodachs, shadowy harbingers of violence? They prowl the halls, suggesting horror to come.But what form will it take? And how will Odd defeat an enemy that eclipses any he has met before?

To some folks I’ve known a long time and admire

because they do good work and are good people:

Peter Styles, Richard Boukes, Bill Anderson

(Hello, Danielle), Dave Gaulke, and Tom Fenner

(Hello, Gabriella, Katia, and Troy).

We’ll have a fine party on the Other Side,

but let’s not be in a hurry.

Teach us …

To give and not to count the cost;

To fight and not to heed the wounds;

To toil and not to seek for rest …

—St. Ignatius Loyola

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u9cd97451-477d-5643-9088-82196d7c153c)

Dedication (#uced4004f-5547-5e5c-bb26-ed3c2e007dff)

Epigraph (#ubd599772-7072-5eac-8d0b-341be4db0bd7)

Chapter 1 (#u565839af-0b33-50a3-862e-2c0498c1c7b2)

Chapter 2 (#u365d9119-ee59-5bbb-ba44-f7e41264c544)

Chapter 3 (#u013d178b-9d3a-5f0f-9bca-82d61873a10b)

Chapter 4 (#u2f1c2d85-ecbd-50b8-b2ae-d510f10fc196)

Chapter 5 (#uae091fbd-4f24-508c-aa42-39a479083695)

Chapter 6 (#u8bbdd319-6924-5916-8b62-4f252497545c)

Chapter 7 (#u59029c19-dac5-5f41-bcbe-06566288ec9d)

Chapter 8 (#uf5173a0a-a206-579a-a9fd-1d50757d4d19)

Chapter 9 (#uf60947ec-f98e-5d63-94ce-5fc71124ec14)

Chapter 10 (#ufc4cd3c6-6a5d-5be6-825a-8e0edeedb0e4)

Chapter 11 (#u2ac57971-de9b-5d41-b828-67798f021320)

Chapter 12 (#uc83c36dd-f237-533b-a082-21d06f2e5c74)

Chapter 13 (#uec37f7d3-d6fa-5756-895c-28a47eb99286)

Chapter 14 (#u4a202413-6c49-598c-a611-8a6eb5216413)

Chapter 15 (#ud950020c-440b-56b6-ac91-7174425b7954)

Chapter 16 (#u0ce7ea45-4872-5e0c-9711-8d365a615fb6)

Chapter 17 (#u073341be-e182-505e-b750-b60d77cb1a98)

Chapter 18 (#u8c342b81-0481-5b90-bd64-35971912aa23)

Chapter 19 (#u28418fd9-20b6-5a2c-92e7-7cdb9af36139)

Chapter 20 (#ub34a8834-3a89-56c3-8aa2-69b5e165224b)

Chapter 21 (#u41b857bb-3b8a-51c7-8167-c55742cd4841)

Chapter 22 (#u273a4387-ec1b-5b57-9520-5057dc7510cd)

Chapter 23 (#u635fd95d-abf2-5d66-a3c6-c7e0f7a0ffcb)

Chapter 24 (#ufd7ea7cc-1004-508c-975a-9f522f40bba3)

Chapter 25 (#ua8d5b870-5e87-58b0-9a7d-58dc9e309760)

Chapter 26 (#ud2a3e110-049e-5fde-b0fd-83f050df5992)

Chapter 27 (#ucd837909-3a47-5fa2-b9ae-847ebbeb2a67)

Chapter 28 (#u47e99bd7-d8f3-56f9-bf63-fca3feabb346)

Chapter 29 (#ue6c4544c-2e09-593c-85d9-aaae7b33d581)

Chapter 30 (#u90c59850-fb72-5762-92c0-ee358e9cd13c)

Chapter 31 (#ud76397c6-8dd1-5f76-adab-9c589be3ac21)

Chapter 32 (#u712ded98-73ac-5a9b-ae76-fc84ee4af292)

Chapter 33 (#u5a2ed43b-50d4-507c-bec0-a0b0715295d7)

Chapter 34 (#u695d1221-178b-5fb0-9f29-e4877f6d72f4)

Chapter 35 (#u24d7f97a-38a6-5ea2-8c32-eed3a74bc6e0)

Chapter 36 (#u114dd0f3-08b3-545c-b14f-f356a1abd236)

Chapter 37 (#uafda976d-bc41-5dba-b478-2ee48102ad9c)

Chapter 38 (#u2af008bf-fcf6-5f67-a3a1-93ea7b10fd16)

Chapter 39 (#u630dc7bb-a814-5eaa-8cd6-d4146bc51871)

Chapter 40 (#uce9a6422-1a62-565c-9b04-60c10e69a135)

Chapter 41 (#ucfca5627-b9d0-542b-8728-5b1932238c33)

Chapter 42 (#u31af06c8-19e2-58e6-986b-1670072ac932)