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Along with his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of an account filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. This is actually the story of five days in the life of a typical man born to a fantastic legacy—a tale that will challenge the way you check out good and evil, life and death, and everything among.
Jimmy Tock comes into the earth on the night his grandfather leaves it. As the violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends extended hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. From the strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up during intercourse and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke.
What he says before he dies is the fact 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 handle. The foremost is that occurs in his twentieth year; the next 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 he discovers that Josef also predicted enough time of his grandson's birth to when, 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 undertake 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 right up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the road he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move nearer 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—challenging against an evil so dark and pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.
