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Desperation

by Stephen King

A Nevada town with no easy way out

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A Nevada town with no easy way out

Desperation begins with travelers pulled off Interstate 50 by the town’s police chief, Collie Entragian, whose behavior signals that something is deeply wrong. The isolated mining town becomes more than a roadside stop: its landscape holds secrets, and a spreading evil lies behind the danger. Young David Carver believes that confronting it will call forth forces of comparable power, bringing spiritual and supernatural conflict into the horror premise. The setup links the vulnerability of stranded travelers with a wider struggle rooted in the town itself.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Horror readers interested in isolated towns and supernatural threats.
  • Readers who enjoy stories involving abducted travelers and a community hiding dangerous secrets.
  • Readers interested in horror with spiritual conflict alongside physical danger.

Themes

Isolation and entrapmentHidden evilSupernatural conflictSpiritual power

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Book overview

Stephen King's #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation, that many will enter on their way to somewhere else. But getting out is not easy as it would seem..."I see holes like eyes. My mind is full of them." For all intents and purposes, police officer Collie Entragian, chief law enforcement for the small mining town of Desperation, Nevada, appears to be completely insane. He's taken to stopping vehicles along the desolate Interstate 50 and abducting unwary travelers with various unusual ploys. There's something very wrong here in Desperation...and Officer Entragian is only at the surface of it. The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape, and the horrifying evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But one of Entragian's victims, young David Carver, seems to know--and it scares him nearly to death to realize this truth--that the forces being summoned to combat this frightful, maniacal aberration are of equal and opposite intensity...
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