Ticktock: A Novel

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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 formidable opponent bent on killing him.


BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.

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4.5
149 reviews
Edgardo “Big Eggie” Guerra-Lopez
December 19, 2023
Dean Koontz is definitely on top of his game I've read 34 of his novels. I love his writing style. He kept me up on many nights reading almost every novel he had at the time.
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A Google user
April 6, 2011
I've never read this book... altho I have it in my library. It seems pretty scary and since I'm scared of horror and scary stuff I don't think I'll read it. Mom says I should, lots of people tell me I should read it. The cover is black and it scares me. But still I know it's about some guy that found a doll infront of his doorstep. I don't know anything else about it. (: It looks awesome... I think I'll read it afterall ^^
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A Google user
February 26, 2011
Tick Tock... Tick Tock... time is running out. Another wonderful book by Dean Koontz, Tick Tock is a suspense novel that starts with a cute little white doll found outside the front door of the hero in the story. His big mistake was to take the doll inside his apartment. A little later, the doll is missing from the couch where it was sitting. And that is where it begins...<br/><br/>What was that sound? A small shadow runs along the floor. Was it a mouse? Ah no. Soon we find a note that tells our hero he will be dead by sunrise. And the race against time starts. Our hero meets a rather strange girl while he is being chased by the uh... uh... uh... "thing". The girl and her dog help our hero thru the whole story--getting stranger by the minute.<br/><br/>This is a must read Koontz novel! Highly recommended. Yes, Koontz is rising in my list of favorite authors.<br/>
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About the author

Dean Koontz, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirit of their goldens, Trixie and Anna.

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