A small town of Chester's Mill, Maine is inexplicably & suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field.
...' Let's get one thing straight: I'm not an outdoorsy type. If I was offered the choice between white-water rafting & being savaged
... Wanted: companion to escort a young, orphaned child home to Australia.
All expenses as well as passage covered.
...
Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour de force featuring more than 100 characters
- some heroic, some diabolical
- & a supernatural element as baffling & chilling as any he's ever conjured. On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mills, Maine, the town is inexplicably & suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it & fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as the Dome comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, & cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, & when
- or if
- it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet & now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens
- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a selectwoman, & three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing
- even murder
- to hold the reins of power, & his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out. With some of the most spectacularly sinister characters King has ever imagined & a driving plot, UNDER THE DOME is Stephen King at his epic best. This book will thrill every reader who's ever loved a novel by King. This book has 1074 pages & is 24.3cm x 16.4cm x 6.5cm