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Jul 31, 2012 | ISBN 9780345533456 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Jun 15, 2007 | ISBN 9780307414175 Buy
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Jul 31, 2012 | ISBN 9780345533456
Jun 15, 2007 | ISBN 9780307414175
Tommy Phan is a 30-year-old Vietnamese-American detective and novelist living in Southern California, and a chaser of the American Dream. He drives home his brand-new Corvette one day to discover a strange doll on his doorstep. It’s a rag doll made entirely of white cloth, with no face or hair or clothes. Where the eyes should be, there are two crossed stitches of black thread. Five sets of crossed black stitches mark the mouth, and another pair form an X over the heart.He brings it into the house. That night, he hears an odd little popping sound and looks up to see the crossed stitches over the doll’s heart breaking apart. When he picks up the doll, he feels something pulsing in its chest. Another thread unravels to reveal a reptilian green eye –and not a doll’s eye, because it blinks. Tommy Phan pursues the thing as it scrambles away into his house — and then is pursued by it as it evolves from a terrifying and vicious minikin into a hulking and formidable opponent bent on killing him.BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz’s The City.
Dean Koontz, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirits of their goldens, Trixie and Anna.
“[A] funny, chilling, supernatural suspense novel.”—Providence Journal-Bulletin “Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler.”—The Times (London) “[Koontz is] a master storyteller. Sometimes humorous, sometimes shocking, but always riveting. His characters sparkle with life.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune “Koontz writes first-rate suspense, scary and stylish.”—Los Angeles Times
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