Ticktock

A Novel

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living the American dream in Southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It’s a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside.

That night Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll’s heart. And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan’s reality will be torn apart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth, something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something that he can’t destroy. It wants Tommy’s life, and he doesn’t know why. He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chance - or by a design far beyond his comprehension. He has too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Because the vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning on Tommy’s computer screen: The deadline is dawn.

©1996 Dean Koontz (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

NOT what I expected!

Started out quite creepy/spooky before it turned humorous. The female protagonist was unpredictable and funny. Nothing is quite as it seems. Good story and I hate spoilers so I won't say more except I recommend it for adults (a bit of it is not really acceptable for kids...in my opinion).
Get it. It was fun and spooky all in one.

Just ok

I'm used to riveting "Wow!" endings to Dean Koontz novels, but this one was a little obvious and kind of plain. It was a good time filler, but not his best.

I love the tie in at the end. Won’t spoil it for the next reader

Awesome story koonz really weaves a narrative that is both unbelievable and highly entertaining and captivating from the first page

A great classic

I love this story but the narration can not touch the original with BD Wong.

So much fun

Wonderfully fun book. Loved the characters. Listened to it twice I liked it so much.

Coontz rocks it again

Great way to kill a drive or sit at the pool and just fricking relax

To far fetched

Knew from beginning where doll came from
Story way way beyond belief which of course is Dean Koontz

Tofu boy??

Meh... predictable. it would actually make a better movie than a book. Some of the dialog was tedious.

One of my favorites

I read this way back in the 80s and loved listening to the audio book. Del & Scootie are the best.

Lame story

Story is pretty weak. The last chapter is ridiculous. Boring and ridiculous is almost enough words.