After Odd Thomas has left Pico Mundo, he runs across a truck driver who owns a rig and wears a strange flashy outfit resembling a cowboy’s attire. During their first encounter, Odd Thomas has a vision that this trucker, whom he calls rhinestone cowboy, is about to kill three children. Using his psychic magnetism, Odd tracks down the cowboy but keeps losing him.

Eventually, Edie Fisher, an ally in the shape of an 86 year-old woman in a Mercedes, her friends, and the ghosts of Odd’s dog and Alfred Hitchcock help him to track down the cowboy and save seventeen children. What is different in this Odd book is that the Rhinestone Cowboy also has supernatural powers that equal and probably transcend those of Odd Thomas’s, as he can store stuff in another universe, which Odd calls Elsewhere.

In this book, Odd Thomas is twenty-two, having grown up from the age of nineteen in the first book, and he still pines after his love, Stormy Llewellyn who had died during the Pico Mundo Mall attack in the first book of the Odd Thomas series.

Although each book in the Odd Thomas series is a stand-alone, far-out story, earlier books provide a backstory for the later books.

Dean Koontz readers.

the fact that the Rhinestone Cowboy's occult powers were stronger than Odd Thomas's, which showed the protagonist succeeding over something much bigger and more dangerous than he had ever encountered.

sad, because I have enjoyed all the books in this series and the author has said, somewhere I can't remember, that this book is the last one in the series.

Dean Koontz is a famous author of horror and suspense.

The writing is superb and the plot, although it follows a certain formulaic pattern, still succeeds to be original.

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