Dean Koontz delivers a masterful blend of suspense, supernatural intrigue, and emotional depth in Life Expectancy—a novel that explores destiny, family, and the battle between light and dark.
On the night Jimmy Tock is born, his grandfather rises from a stroke-induced silence to issue a chilling prophecy: five dark days will define Jimmy’s future. As he grows, each foretold date arrives with terrifying, life-altering consequences.
Brimming with Koontz's signature twists and unforgettable characters, this roller coaster of a novel grips you from the first page and never lets go. For fans of gripping thrillers with heart, Life Expectancy is a must-read.
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 anomal 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.
