Dean R. Koontz - Life Expectancy

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Life Expectancy

By: Dean R. Koontz

"Koontz [is] working at his pinnacle, providing terrific entertainment

that deals seriously with some of the deepest themes of human

existence: the nature of evil, the grip of fate and the power of love.

"Publishers Weekly (starred review)

With his best selling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry,

and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller

coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and

surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in

the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy-a story

that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death,

and everything in between.... Life Expectancy

Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather

leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock

spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers'

waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made

all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef

Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the first and

last time since his stroke.

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What he says before he dies is 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 face. The first is to occur in his twentieth

year; the second in his twenty-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 then he discovers that Josef also predicted the time of his

grandson's birth to the minute, as well as his exact height and weight,

and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactyly-the unexplained

anomaly of fused digits-on his left foot. Suddenly the old man's

predictions take on 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 up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points,

the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each

crisis he faces, he will move closer 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-a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive, only the

most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.

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"Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and

fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular

fiction to explore the human condition. "USA Today

"The Dean of Suspense. "People

DEAN KOONTZ is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He

lives with his wife, Gerda, and their dog, Trixie, in southern

California.

A Main Selection of The Literary Guild, Mystery Guild, Doubleday Book

Club, and Doubleday Large Print Book Club

Cover art Tom Hallman

Visit Bantam's website at www.bantamdell.com.

Visit Dean Koontz at www.deankoontz.com.

Bantam Books

LIFE EXPECTANCY.

ALSO BY DEAN KOONTZ

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The Taking

Odd Thomas

The Face

By the Light of the Moon

One Door Away From Heaven

From the Corner of His Eye

False Memory

Seize the Night

Fear Nothing

Mr. Murder

Dragon Tears

Hideaway

Cold Fire

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The Bad Place

Midnight

Lightning

Watchers

Strangers

Twilight Eyes

Dark fall

Phantoms

Whispers

The Mask

The Vision

The Face of Fear

Night Chills

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Shattered

The Voice of the Night

The Servants of Twilight

The House of Thunder

The Key to Midnight

The Eyes ofDarkhess

Shadowfires

Winter Moon

The Door to December

Dark Rivers of the Heart

Icebound

Strange Highways

Intensity

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Sole Survivor

Ticktock

The Fun house

Demon Seed

LIFE EXPECTANCY

A Bantam Book / December 2004

Published by Bantam Dell

A Division of Random House, Inc.

New York, New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents

either are the product of the author's imagination or are used

fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,

events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Book design by Virginia Norey

A signed, limited edition has been privately published by Charnel

House. Charnelhouse.com

Bantam Books is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc." and the

colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Koontz, Dean R. Life

expectancy / Dean Koontz.

p. cm. ISBN: 0-553-80414-6

1. Cerebrovascular disease-Patients-Fiction. 2. Fathers and

sons-Fiction. 3. Terminally ill-Fiction. 4. Grandfathers-Fiction. 5.

Forecasting-Fiction.

PS3561.O55L49 2004b 813'.54dc-22 2004059476

Printed in the United States of America Published simultaneously in

Canada www.bantamdell.com

BVG 10 987654321

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To Laura Albano,

who has such a good heart.

Strange brain, but good heart.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

-Anne Bronte, "The Narrow Way"

Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And,

whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate.

-Lord Byron, "To Thomas Moore"

PART ONE

Welcome to the World,

Jimmy Tock

in the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made

ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute

that my mother gave birth to me.

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Josef had never previously engaged in fortune-telling. He was a pastry

chef. He made eclairs and lemon tarts, not predictions.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this

world to eternity. I am thirty years old and can't for certain see the

course of my life, but rather than a graceful arc, my passage seems to

be a herky-jerky line from one crisis to another.

I am a lummox, by which I do not mean stupid, only that I am biggish

for my size and not always aware of where my feet are going.

This truth is not offered in a spirit of self-deprecation or even

humility. Apparently, being a lummox is part of my charm, an almost

winsome trait, as you will see.

No doubt I have now raised in your mind the question of what I in

tend to imply by "biggish for my size." Autobiography is proving to be

a trickier task than I first imagined.

I am not as tall as people seem to think I am, in fact not tall at all

by the standards of professional-or even of high school-basketball. I

am neither plump nor as buff as an iron-pumping fitness fanatic. At

most I am somewhat husky.

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