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Tommy Phan skriver krimier. Han er.fra en vietnamesisk familie og bliver drillet med at have skiftet navn fra Phan Tran Tuong. Men bøgerne sælger godt og han har lige købt en drømmebil, en Corvette. Han har dog fået en grim forudanelse, mærkelige lyde i bilradioen og på hans
Han ringer til sin ven Sal Delario for at høre om dukken kan være en advarsel fra en gadebande, men de plejer bare at skyde uden at advare først. Tommy forsøger at sende en kryptisk seddel på dukken til Sal pr fax, men den vises som en blank side ved modtageren. Tommy skriver på en ny bog om detektiven Chip Nguyen, men stikker sig på en nål fra dukken, som begynder at gå fra hinanden. Han går i panik og finder sin revolver frem. Imens har dukken smidt kludene og hopper rundt med en stålfjeder, som den bruger til at kortslutte en stikkontakt med.
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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Tommy Phan is a 30-year-old Vietnamese-American detective and novelist living in Southern California, and a chaser of the American Dream. He drives home his brand-new Corvette one day to discover a strange doll on his doorstep. It's a rag doll made entirely of white cloth, with no face or hair or clothes. Where the eyes should be, there are two crossed stitches of black thread. Five sets of crossed black stitches mark the mouth, and another pair form an X over the heart. He brings it into the house. That night, he hears an odd little popping sound and looks up to see the crossed stitches over the doll's heart breaking apart. When he picks up the doll, he feels something pulsing in its chest. Another thread unravels to reveal a reptilian green eye �??and not a doll's eye, because it blinks. Tommy Phan pursues the thing as it scrambles away into his house �?? and then is pursued by it as it evolves from a terrifying and vicious minikin into a hulking and formida… (more)
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This was my first Dean Koontz book. I had been wanting to read something by him for a long time but just
This may have been my first Koontz book, but it wont be my last. You need to read this one.
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Omslaget viser en bagvendt urskive
Omslagsillustration: Lee Gibbons
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra amerikansk "Ticktock" af Inger Vedersø
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