The Odd Thomas Series 4-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours

by Dean Koontz

  I have seen you where you have not yet been. I depend on you.

  Whoever had spoken was not a ghost. I see the lingering dead, but this man remained invisible. Besides, the dead don’t talk.

  Occasionally, the deceased try to communicate through the art of mime, which can be frustrating. Like any mentally healthy citizen, I am overcome by the urge to strangle a mime when I happen upon one in full performance, but a mime who’s already dead is unmoved by that threat.

  Turning in a full circle, in seeming solitude, I nevertheless said, “Hello?”

  The lone voice that answered was a cricket that had escaped the predatory frogs.