With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry,
and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller
coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and
surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in
the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy--a story
that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and
death, and everything in between.Jimmy Tock comes into the world on
the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages
outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the
corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying
father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at
the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in
bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his
stroke.What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark
days in the life of his grandson--five dates whose terrible events
Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in
his twentieth year; the second in his twent-third year; the third in
his twenty-eighth; the fourth in his twenty-ninth; the fifth in his
thirtieth.Rudy is all too ready to discount his father's last words
as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers that
Josef also predicted the time of his grandson's birth to the minute,
as well as his exact height and weight, and the fact that Jimmy would
be born with syndactyly--the unexplained anomal of fused digits--on
his left foot. Suddenly the old man's predictions take on a chilling
significance.What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark
days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive?
As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these
crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation.
And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could
never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must
accomplish on the five days when his world turns is a mystery as
dangerous as it is wondrous--a struggle against an evil so dark and
pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine
through.
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