Odd Thomas thinks he has gained some respite at the snow mountain monastery in High Sierra. His strange sense of the otherworldly has led him to a self-imposed exile. But wherever Odd goes, strangeness inevitably follows. With the ghost of Elvis in tow, Odd finds himself once again in the middle of a mystery involving Bodachs, the shadowy harbingers of violence. What is their obsession with the tragically disabled children saved by the monastery and who is the sinister Russian who also claims to be seeking peace?