Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. As a matter of fact, he’s ready and waiting to ignite an explosive confrontation with the legislative forces gathered against him. As the wheels of progress and a demolition crew continue unabated throughout Bart’s neighborhood, he’s not about to give everything up without a fight. But as a result, something’s been happening inside Bart’s head that a heartless local bureaucracy isn’t prepared for-a complete and irrevocable burnout of the mental circuit breaker that keeps a mild-mannered person from turning to violent means. The city’s Highway 784 extension is in the process of being constructed right across town and inexorably through every aspect of Bart’s existence-whether it’s about to barrel over the laundry plant where he makes a living, or soon to smash through the very home where he makes a life. It’s all coming to an end for Barton Dawes.
But people talk a different language inside."
“Under any name King mesmerizes the reader” ( Chicago Sun-Times). Only Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, can imagine the horror of a good and angry man who fights back against bureaucracy when it threatens to destroy his vitality, home, and memories.
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