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Book Review of Ticktock

Ticktock
Ticktock
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre: Horror
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 3


As printed on book cover:
Thirty-year-old detective novelist Tommy Phan has just become the proud owner of a bright aqua Corvetter. But as he drives his new purchase home on a balmy California day, he is suddenly seized by a teeth-chattering chill and the feeling that he is being followed by something sinister. When Tommy arrives home, a mysyerious rag doll-with crossed stitches for eyes and mouth, and one over its heart-is sitting on his doorstep.
Tommy takes the doll inside. That evening, he is horrified when its fabric rips open, revealing a beating heart and a blinking green eye. It evolves into a hulking, formidable creature bent on destroying him. On Tommy's computer screen, it writes, 'THE DEADLINE IS DAWN.' With his new friend Del, a beautiful, strangely intuitive blonde, Tommy frantically flees. He must discover what this fierce enemy is and why it's pursuing him...before his very life ticktocks away.