Tick Tock By Dean Koontz

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Backcover Description:   Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist, living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside. That night, Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll's heart. And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan's reality will be torn apart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth, something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something that he can't destroy. It wants Tommy's life and he doesn't know why. He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chance--or by a design far beyond his comprehension. He has too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Because the vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning on Tommy's computer screen: The deadline is dawn. So, is it worth reading?   Horror screwball comedy, anyone?  I picked up this book because of its cover and the backcover description.  Never judge a book by its cover , I know. Knowing Dean Koontz, I was looking for a good horror/supernatural thriller and came across this. The cover image and the description is quite tempting and so I picked it up. Expecting some decent scares for a few nights, I was stupefied to find the exact opposite inside and I must add, a tad disappointed.  But not one to leave a novel unread midway, I plodded on.  And I'm glad that I did.Tommy Phan is a novelist Vietanamese American detective who tries too hard to lose its origins and secretly aspires to be as suave Vietanamese the detective character in his books, Chip Nguyen. He realizes his childhood dream of buying an aqua blue Corvette and will see his mother who fights with him to dishonor his roots and trying to be an American. He reached home to find a rag doll on his door he takes in and then strange things start to happen. Then he gets time on his computer screen that he has until dawn and turns it into a monster doll that is constantly growing.His only hope for this mess is the issue Payne, a waitress who served him greesy cheeseburgers and a milkshake.

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