Ticktock -- Dean Koontz, Mass Market Paperbound

Tommy Phan is a 30-year-old Vietnamese-American detective and novelist living in Southern California, and a chaser of the American Dream. He drives home his brand-new Corvette one day to discover a strange doll on his doorstep. It's a rag doll made entirely of white cloth, with no face or hair or clothes. Where the eyes should be, there are two crossed stitches of black thread. Five sets of crossed black stitches mark the mouth, and another pair form an X over the heart.

He brings it into the house. That night, he hears an odd little popping sound and looks up to see the crossed stitches over the doll's heart breaking apart. When he picks up the doll, he feels something pulsing in its chest. Another thread unravels to reveal a reptilian green eye --and not a doll's eye, because it blinks.
Tommy Phan pursues the thing as it scrambles away into his house -- and then is pursued by it as it evolves from a terrifying and vicious minikin into a hulking and formidable opponent bent on killing him.

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.

Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 07/31/2012
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.53h x 4.29w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780345533456

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.2
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 54131 / Ticktock

About the Author
Dean Koontz, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirit of their goldens, Trixie and Anna.