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Essay / Analysis of Odd Thomas - 730
Odd must stop a new guy who arrives in the town of Pico Mundo and seeks to cause a catastrophe. Odd must race against time to stop him before things go horribly wrong. He realizes from the first time he meets the new man (after nicknamed him Fungus Man) that there is something not quite normal about this guy, and discovers that not only does this guy is a bodach (an evil spirit who feasts on pain whose presence alerts those who know that violence is on the way)"Forever Odd"The sequel to "Odd Thomas", the novel takes place just six months after the first novel. Odd discovers that his friend Danny as a child was kidnapped and that Danny's stepfather was brutally murdered. The hypothesis, at first, is that the boy's father, who has just been released from prison, kidnapped his son. Using his psychic abilities, Odd is able to find Danny, and he tells Odd that he met a woman through sketchy means and he informed the woman of Odd's gift. So she kidnapped him in order to meet Odd. "Saint