Publisher's Synopsis
Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds... He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in chaos, there is order, purpose and strange meaning that invites our understanding - but often thwarts it. Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn there, he finds work as cook and assistant to a once-famous film actor who, at eighty, has become an eccentric with a long list of fears. Odd is having worrisome dreams of a red tide. But nothing prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before...
