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About From A Buick 8
Product Description The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was...wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous -- and that it would be better if John Q. Public never found out about it. Curt's avid curiosity taking the lead, they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still life painting that breathes -- inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from. In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his 18-year-old boy Ned starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it's the boy's way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well.... From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable. About the Author Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes 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. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. From Booklist The book King was writing when he was almost killed by a drunk driver begins with Pennsylvania state trooper Curt Wilcox being killed by a drunk driver. When Curt's son, Ned, starts doing chores and learning everyday procedures at the station, Troop D virtually adopts him, and when he discovers the cherry '54 Buick in out-of-the-way shed B, the troopers feel they must tell him the car's story. Towed to shed B under the aegis of veteran trooper Ennis Rafferty and rookie Curt Wilcox in 1979, it was found to have no workable engine, and it proved capable of making the air in and around it as much as 30 degrees colder than the ambient temperature. When that happened, so did other things. People and animals near it disappeared, its trunk disgorged hideous creatures, and it erupted storms of intense light. It is not-of-this-world, of course, and it utterly entranced Curt, who conducted shot-in-the-dark experiments on it before deciding it cannot be understood by humans. Now it exerts the same fascination on Ned, which leads to the capper of the series of fright events that make up the novel. Plot has seldom been King's strong suit, which is more-than-usually obvious this time because there are nearly no scene changes, and the car's shenanigans lack variety. The voices of the characters as they talk to Ned are what susta
