This is my very favorite of all Dean Koontz books. It's fun and quirky, and has the usual good mystery as well.

You'll find yourself laughing quite a bit through this one but it was still great. One of my favorites to reread.

Tommy Phan is a thirty-year-old Vietnamese American detective 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 rather like a rag doll, but is covered entirely with white cloth, having no face or hair or clothes, little more than a doll blank. 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 breaking over the doll's heart. When he picks the doll up, he feels something pulsing in it's chest. Another thread unravels to reveal a reptilian green eye--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 formaidable opponent bent on killing him. THE DEADLINE IS DAWN, the creature types on Tommy's computer screen, and in the hours that follow, with the help of a beautiful, strangely, intuitive waitress he meets on the highway, Tommy frantically flees this fierce enemy, desperate to discover what this thing is and why it's pursuing him.

Tommy Phan, a Vietnamese immigrant trying to escape a home-brewed spell run amok. The story races through a terror-filled night as Tommy and his new friend, Deliverance Payne, try to outsmart a demon bent on murder.

This book never made it to a hard copy book. Koontz wrote this novel after writting "Dark Rivers of the Heart", hence the lightheartedness and humor within this novel. Koontz was looking for relief from the darkness of his previous writtings. This story is a little unusual, not one of my favorite Koontz novels, but still a good read.......

I read it a couple of times it soo good. It is not what you think and it will not end how you expect, that is what makes this author the best out there. Even over KING

Another thriller for Dean Koontz. Very bizzar. Just reading it can turn your blood cold if your not careful.

Scary Thriller, Koontz is the master of them, right up there with King.

Koontz is riviting in his ability to keep you reading and reading. i turned into a prune in the tub while i froze in the cold bath water- i just couldn't stop reading to get out!

Tommy Phan,A Vietnamese-American detective in Southern California> He drives home one day to find a strange doll on his doorstep, covered entirely with white cloth, having no face, hair or clothes. Little more than a doll 'blank' with two crossed stitches where the eyes should be, five sets mark the mouth and two mark the heart. That night
he hears an odd popping sound and sees the crossed stitches breaking and revealed a reptilian green eye-not a doll's eye, because it blinks
then Tommy Phan pursues the thing as it scrambles away into his house---then he is pursued by it as it evolves into a terrifying opponent bent on killing him. "The deadline is dawn" the creature types on Tommy's computer screen---------(I enjoyed this book very much and recommend it to everyone who likes MYSTERY & SUSPENSE.)

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