Book description
Children are disappearing, lost to the world, horrifically murdered.
The best clue the detectives have - a serial killer from a century ago.
Jack Sawyer, retired from the LAPD at 35, plagued by visions of another
world.
As a child, Jack visited the Territories, a menacing place of violence
and madness, to save his dying mother. Now, if the latest child victim
is to be saved, Jack must retrieve his lost childhood memories, and
revisit the one place he hoped never to see again. Stephen King was
born in Portland, Maine, and won a scholarship award to the University
of Maine and later taught English. It was the publication of his first
novel, CARRIE, and its subsequent adaptation that set him on the way to
over twenty years of world-wide bestsellerdom and his acclaimed position
as the master of horror and suspense. Stephen King lives in Bangor,
Maine, with his wife Tabitha. www. stephenking. com
Peter Straub was born and educated in Wisconsin, and lived in Dublin
and London before settling in New York. Author of a string of
bestselling novels, he is the recipient of five BRAM STOKER AWARDS and
the two-times winner of the International HORROR GUILD AWARD. www.
peterstraub. net
