Odd Thomas, the man gifted with the ability to see and communicate with the dead, first introduced to readers in Dean Koontz’s 2003 novel of the same name, is back in Forever Odd, where the ghost of his best friend’s father, Dr. Wilbur Jessup, summons Odd to the Jessup home to discover Dr. Jessup’s body and his friend Danny, afflicted by brittle bones, nowhere to be found. Odd uses his gifts to trace the psychic trails left behind to find his endangered friend, but ends up becoming the prey himself when the beautiful and evil Datura wants to use Odd for his supernatural abilities and then kill him.