In Odd We Trust. Dean Koontz

      ABOUT THE CREATORS

      DEAN KOONTZ is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives with his wife, Gerda, in Southern California.

      QUEENIE CHAN was born in 1980 in Hong Kong and emigrated to Australia when she was six years old. She began drawing at the age of 18 and graduated in 2002 with a degree in Information Systems. In 2004, she began drawing a mystery-horror series called The Dreaming for Los Angeles-based manga publisher Tokyopop, the three volumes of which are now available. It has been translated into four languages. Apart from her professional work, Queenie Chan also draws a number of online manga strips on her personal site: http://www.queeniechan.com/

      THE ODD FACE IN THE MIRROR

      Dean Koontz

      DURING MY CAREER, I HAVE WRITTEN A TOWNFUL OF CHARACTERS, maybe enough of them to populate Pico Mundo, California, in which Odd Thomas lived his first twenty years. I have provided physical descriptions of those people, some in more detail than others. In all but one case, during the writing of the books in which those people appeared, I had vivid images of their faces in my mind.

      The exception was Odd Thomas. By page two, I knew Oddie more intimately than I had ever known another character after writing so