Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz
The new thriller from Dean Koontz is an emotional rollercoaster telling the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man -- a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death.
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 first 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 20th year; the second in his 23rd year; the third in his 28th; the fourth in his 29th; the fifth in his 30th. 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 moment of his grandson's birth to the minute, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with fused toes on his left foot...
What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? At each of the crisis points a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrous unfolds - a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.
Format: Paperback | 400 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.3 x 3 | 562g
Publication Date: 10 Jan 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN10: 0007197004
ISBN13: 9780007197002
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some damage to the cover including minor scuff marks along the edges, and creasing on the bottom-right corner of the front cover, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. An old and aged, but still a clean, solid, and readable copy.