{"product_id":"9780307414298","title":"Life Expectancy","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis ebook edition contains a special preview of Dean Koontz’s \u003ci\u003eThe Silent Corner\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling  magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with  enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the  story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy—a  story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and  everything in between.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather  leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours  walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's  bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the  storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist  and last time since his stroke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What he says before he dies is that there will be  five dark days in the life of his grandson—five dates whose terrible events Jimmy  will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his twentieth year;  the second in his twent-third year; the third in his twenty-eighth; the fourth in  his twenty-ninth; the fifth in his thirtieth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rudy is all too ready to discount  his father's last words as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers  that Josef also predicted the time of his grandson's birth to the minute, as well  as his \u003ci\u003eexact\u003c\/i\u003e height and weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactyly—the  unexplained anomal of fused digits—on his left foot. Suddenly the old man's predictions  take on a chilling significance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five  dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the  novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path  he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will  move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what  he must accomplish on the five days when his world turns is a mystery as dangerous  as it is wondrous—a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive, only the most  extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084480004336,"sku":"9780307414298","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307414298_p0.jpg?v=1763672148","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307414298","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}