Odd Thomas

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Now a major motion picture starring Anton Yelchin Willem Dafoe and Addison Timlin and directed by Stephen Sommers The dead dont talk. I dont know why. But they do try to communicate with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift maybe its a curse Odd has never been sure but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice and Odds otherworldly tips to Pico Mundos sympathetic police chief Wyatt Porter can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time its different. A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the worlds worst killers and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants not even Odds deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15. Today is August 14. In less than twenty-four hours Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock n Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmaresand a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely with courage humor and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere.