Ticktock

Overview

Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist, living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside. That night, Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll's heart. And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan's reality will be torn apart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth, something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something that he can't destroy. It wants Tommy's life and he doesn't know why. He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chance--or by a design far beyond his comprehension. He has too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Because the vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning on Tommy's computer screen: The deadline is dawn.

Ticktock

Time is running out.

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Author Information

Bio of Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Bedford. He won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition when he was twenty and has been writing ever since. Mr. Koontz's books are published in 38 languages. Worldwide sales total more than 175 million copies, a figure that currently increases at a rate of more than 17 million copies a year. Dean and his wife, Gerda, live in southern California.

Customer Reviews

• slow in the beginning, but worth the wait

  Posted July 02, 2007 by odiverdano, Colorado, USA

  The first 100 pages were pretty slow, I almost quit reading on several occasions, as I got tired of all the many, many details of the main characters life. And then when the doll came into the picture, I thought "oh my gosh, this is just another chuckie doll story" and almost stopped right there. However, when the second main character enters into the scene, it becomes a very enjoyable read from that point on, so it is worth the wait.

• ridiculous

  Posted September 21, 2009 by john, san jose, ca

  koontz is stretching even his imagination to come up with this story

Additional Info

Imprint

Random House

Filesize

1.20 MB

Number of Pages

352

eBook ISBN

9780307414175