Deeply Odd
Published: 2013
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Psychic, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller
Book 6 of 7: Odd Thomas
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Summary
Odd Thomas meets a mad truck driver around a month after the events of Odd Apocalypse.
Odd gets a vision of three children being burned alive by someone wearing a red suit, black shirt, and black mask during this meeting, as he touches the trucker. Odd realizes at that point that the trucker had the same vision and is the one torching the youngsters. The trucker immediately attempts but fails, to murder Odd.
Odd pursues the trucker despite the fact that the man attempted to murder him because he knows he must assist the children.
Odd, realizing he needs a car, grabs an SUV used as a getaway vehicle during a crime but smashes it. Then he notices a limousine approaching. The driver, who turns out to be an old feisty, fascinating, and occasionally enigmatic lady, pulls up to him and asks him a few questions before offering him a job as her chauffeur.
He grudgingly accepts the task and tracks down the trucker to a remote estate guarded by fierce dogs.
Devil worshippers make their sacrifices here, and they're planning a mass sacrifice of a large group of children.
The ghost of Alfred Hitchcock, who has been coming to Odd on a regular basis, explains numerous of the cultists' beliefs. They are affluent, powerful, and nasty individuals who get away with whatever they want because the deity they worship protects them.
Hitchcock's spirit communicates to Odd for the first time, which he has never experienced before; the living dead simply does not speak.
Hitchcock emphasizes to Odd that at this moment in time, the only thing that counts is protecting the children. Odd is massively outmanned and will very definitely perish in the process.
Pretending to be a fellow cultist, Odd murders five cult members and manages to release the children, allowing him to flee the property and the demonic mayhem that is engulfing the remaining cult members.
He finally arrives in the limousine, where his patron Mrs. Fischer and the rescued children await him. She drives them to a home that appears to be extremely comfortable, and a kind couple welcomes them inside.
Once everyone is inside, five more adults and nine more youngsters join them. They all treat the rescued children with love, feeding them, talking with them, listening to them, and spending healing time with them.
Later, while reclining on a sofa and focussing on a card in his hand, Odd notices that the five parents and nine children who had arrived earlier had vanished.
Then he is told that the children he saved will be returned to their homes. They will have no recollection of the atrocities to which they were subjected.
The immediate challenges presented to Odd are overcome in this book, but there are clues of the endgame throughout. The author has declared that the seventh book in the Odd Thomas series will be the final one.
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