STEPHEN KING - Desperation

London, England, Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0340654279 Hardback Desperation: a small town in the middle of the Nevada desert. It looks hauntingly familiar with its signs to the Desperation Coffee Shop and Video Spot. Just off the loneliest highway in America, it should be a refuge in a wasteland. The once thriving copper mining town now seems eerily empty. Almost abandoned. Except for a few desert animals - snake, coyote, buzzard. And of course the local cop patrolling the wilderness road - Desperation's unique regulator. The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape are as awesome as the forces summoned to encounter them. When they are unleashed, a terrifying transformation takes place and the wayfarers will begin to discover the true meaning of the word desperation..This book is an apocalyptic drama of God and evil, madness and revelation in which the master of horror and suspense tempts you into his literay lion's den. And holds you willingly behind bars. 545 pages. Slight shelf wear to edge of D/J.