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Life Expectancy

(Dean Koontz)

By Dean R. Koontz

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| Audio CD | 9780739315538

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With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man Continue

With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy--a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between.

Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke.

What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson--five dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his twentieth year; the second in his twent-third year; the third in his twenty-eighth; the fourth in his twenty-ninth; the fifth in his thirtieth.

Rudy is all too ready to discount his father's last words as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the time of his grandson's birth to the minute, as well as his exact height and weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactyly--the unexplained anomal of fused digits--on his left foot. Suddenly the old man's predictions take on a chilling significance.

What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days when his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrous--a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.


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  • This is my favorite Dean Koontz book... so far. When I talk to people about books, I almost always mention this one. The only issue I had with it was that I always forget the title of the book (confuse it with Tick Tock because of the book cover).

    If you like twisted stories involving crazed clowns ... (continue)

    This is my favorite Dean Koontz book... so far. When I talk to people about books, I almost always mention this one. The only issue I had with it was that I always forget the title of the book (confuse it with Tick Tock because of the book cover).

    If you like twisted stories involving crazed clowns and bakers...you will like this. There is a love story, an eccentric female a killer clown and the kindly baker with his strange hours.

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    Kamatherly said on Apr 6, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • In the moments before he is born, Jimmy Tock has a strange destiny thrust upon him. His dying grandfather prophesies five dark days in his grandson’s life. The moment his grandfather dies, Jimmy emerges squalling into the world, destined to struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive only the mos ... (continue)

    In the moments before he is born, Jimmy Tock has a strange destiny thrust upon him. His dying grandfather prophesies five dark days in his grandson’s life. The moment his grandfather dies, Jimmy emerges squalling into the world, destined to struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.

    What dangers await Jimmy on these five dark days? What terrifying events must he survive? At each of the crisis points a mystery unfolds that will challenge his understanding of god and evil, life and death – and everything in between.

    Great read, excellent humour, and a fabulous and unexpected twist…

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    wgeddert said on Aug 4, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Wow I know I am a slow reader I read during my lunch breaks & not all the time. The only reason I read it through is because I can't start something & not finish. Personally I will not read again but that's my opinion I know some people loved this.

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    sati1028 said on Apr 5, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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