"Maybe you're not a believer, but if you're honest, You'll have to agree that something is wrong with this place, senseless violence, corrupting envy, greed, blind hatred, and willful ignorance seem to be proof that earth has gone haywire, but so is the absurdity that we see everywhere. The people of a broken world, off the rails and wobbling trackless on their journeys to oblivion or meaning, are frequently foolish, sometimes in entertaining ways. When amusing, their foolishness - and mine - can be a lamp that brightens my spirit in spite of all threats and suffering. I suspected that by the time this was done, Mrs. Fischer would leave me glowing." So says twenty-two year old Odd Thomas when Ms. Edie Fischer picks him up off the side of the road in her stretch limo and enlists him as her chauffeur. He is in pursuit of a rhinestone cowboy driving an evil big rig. Thomas has foiled a massacre at a grocery store and is determined to prevent the trucker from setting fire to innocents. Odd Thomas and his predilection for seeing ghosts - including Alfred Hitchcock, is once again a most captivating vehicle for illuminating the battle between good and evil, and elucidating what it means to be good.
"This world isn't run by miracles. This world is run by free will."
"You have to do what you have to do, always, and without complaint."
"Fearlessness is for the insane and arrogant."
"It isn't true that curiosity killed the cat. Cats are done in by coyotes or Peterbilts."
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