Brother Odd: a novel by Dean Koontz

Odd Thomas gets odder***

This, the third book in the Odd Thomas series by Koontz, author of more than 50 novels,is better than the second but not as good as the first. After the events of the second book, Odd has retreated to a monastery in the Sierra Nevadas to ponder the meaning of life and the strange things that happen to him. But no quiet time for him. His sixth sense, intuition, and his ability to see the lingering dead, again propel him into a maelstrom of weird events as he senses something terrible is about to befall St. Barts and the disabled kids who reside there.Stange creatures lurk around the monastery. Odd ends up being assisted by a former Russian spy, now working for the NSA, in uncovering the mad genius at the heart of the impending doom. Odd averts disaster and then sets off on a journey which will lead us to the next instalmentr in the Odd Thomas saga.

I have to confess I much preferred Velocity and The Husband to the Thomas series. Indeed, it's hard to believe they were conceived by the same author.