Author Dean Koontz was trying to wake us up years ago. Look at this evidence. He has written a series of books about a main character named "Odd Thomas." This dude can see dead people, i.e. ghosts, and can figure out by intuition where bad guys lurk. Odd Thomas does his best to stop bad stuff from happening. When these books came out, I didn't take them seriously. Probably you didn't either. Look again. (By the way, I believe Koontz is a perfectly good person, just tuned in.) In Odd Apocalypse, Odd is drawn to a mysterious West Coast property called Roseland, where a billionaire and "servants" live. They turn out to be a Satanic group that does weird violent things and are trying to live forever in their own weird little world. They consider us mere mortals as playthings. Hmmm... Then, in Deeply Odd, Odd Thomas is up against another group of Satanists who KIDNAP CHILDREN TO DO VERY BAD THINGS TO THEM. I shit you not. Copyright date is 2013, way before the Podesta emails when all of us Got A Clue. The Satanists are having a ceremony that will involve the children, and not in a good way, and in their ranks are top people in government, entertainment, business...Well, damn. And what an appropriate expression. How Koontz describes the Satanists fits unusually well what we have been finding out the last few years. The whole thing is spooky, in so many ways. A quote from the book, during the part when Odd Thomas is going into their compound: "I rounded the church and stood looking at the house, wondering if security would be any better there than at the entrance to this property. I didn't think it would be. "They knew that their fellow citizens, in this brave new century, chose to be unaware of them, to consign their master and them to the realm of myth. No one would come looking for them because no one believed in their existence. Who arms himself and goes hunting for the furious Bandersnatch or leads an expedition to the North Pole with the serious intention of interviewing Santa Claus?"  So how did Koontz KNOW all this? I understand he had a disturbing, dysfunctional childhood (there's an interview about this). Also, his first job was counseling poor kids (https://www.deankoontz.com/about-dean/). Who knows what he heard? Plus there is the possibility of the Big Good Dude telling him about the Big Bad Dude. However he knew, he definitely and completely knew way before the rest of us. He also has a recent series about a character named Jane Hawk. She is ex-FBI running from an evil cabal ("cabal" being used). However, I don't think this is as impressive as the story in Deeply Odd, partly because of timing. Since it is current, he could have just picked up the plot idea from us on the internet. Plus the stories aren't as good as Odd Thomas stories, and they don't really end with an ending. She never really wins. But then again, we in the real world haven't quite won yet either. You can easily find the books at the library. What do you think?