Stephen King's #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation, that many will enter on their way to somewhere else. But getting out is not easy as it would seem... "I see holes like eyes. My mind is full of them." For all intents and purposes, police officer Collie Entragian, chief law enforcement for the small mining town of Desperation, Nevada, appears to be completely insane. He's taken to stopping vehicles along the desolate Interstate 50 and abducting unwary travelers with various unusual ploys. There's something very wrong here in Desperation...and Officer Entragian is only at the surface of it. The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape, and the horrifying evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But one of Entragian's victims, young David Carver, seems to know--and it scares him nearly to death to realize this truth--that the forces being summoned to combat this frightful, maniacal aberration are of equal and opposite intensity...

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There's a place alone Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's not a very nice place to live. It's an even worse place to die. It's known as Desperation, Nevada...

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Several cross-country travelers--including a writer, a family on vacation, and a professor and his wife--end up in the little mining town of Desperation, where a crazy policeman and evil forces compel them to fight for their lives.

An evil force invades a mining town in Nevada. It takes control of the body of a highway patrolman and proceeds to kill people. The evil force meets its match in the person of David Carver, 11, who is guided by God himself. By the author of The Regulators.

Mary and Peter Jackson, the Carver family, and aging novelist John Marinville are on their way to different destinations, but first they must pass through the town of Desperation, Nevada and for some of them it will be the end of the road.

Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:"The terror is relentless" (Publishers Weekly) in Stephen King's #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation, that many will enter on their way to somewhere else. But getting out is not easy as it would seem...
Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada, has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. And it is a place where several travelers are abducted by Collie Entragian, the maniacal police officer of Desperation. Entragian uses various ploys for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to "rescuing" a family from a nonexistent gunman. There's something very wrong here, all right, and Entragian is only the surface of it.

The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape, and the evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But as one of the travelers, young David Carver, seems to know�though it scares him nearly to death to realize it�so are the forces summoned to combat them. "Stephen King's knack for turning the stray junk of pop culture into sick, darkly engrossing thrills has rarely been this much in evidence as in Desperation" (Salon).

Desperation is a deserted mining town in the Nevada desert. It's not a place to visit by choice, and the few unhappy travellers who are forced to stop there witness the familiar-looking town undergo a terrible transformation. In the struggle between good and evil, sacrifice may be the only answer.

In a small town in Nevada known as Desperation, several people traveling along Highway 50 realize the terror that this town holds when they are arrested and held captive by the local deputy.

The town of Desperation, Nevada, is aptly named. A dead cat nailed to a highway sign is the only welcome extended to the hapless tourists who end up there. Unspeakable evil takes many forms in this mining town, not the least of which is the traffic police. A desperate group of captives, led by a small boy, find themselves engaged in a struggle that reaches apocalyptic proportions.

Welcome to Desperation. Once a thriving copper mining town in the middle of the Nevada desert, Desperation is now eerily abandoned. It's the last place that travellers like the Carver family, bound for vacation, and writer Johnny Marinville, astride his Harley, would expect to be stopped and charged. But Desperation still has a local cop - a unique regulator who patrols the wilderness highway. The secrets buried in Desperation are as terrifying as the forces summoned to encounter them. A terrifying transformation is taking place and the travellers will soon discover the true meaning of desperation . . .

"Nevada is mostly a long stretch of desert you cross on the way to somewhere else. And with someone else, if you're lucky...because it's a scary place. Headed down Route 50 in the brutal summer heat are people who are never going to reach their destinations. Like the Jacksons, a professor and his wife going home to New York City; the Carvers, a Wentworth, Ohio, family bound for a vacation at Lake Tahoe; and aging literary lion Johnny Marinville, inventing a gonzo image for himself astride a 700-pound Harley." "A dead cat nailed to a road sign heralds the little mining town of Desperation, a town that seems withered in the shade of a man-made mountain known as the China Pit. But it's worse than that, much worse. Regulating the traffic there is Collie Entragian, an outsize uniformed madman who considers himself the only law west of the Pecos. God forbid you should be missing a license plate or find yourself with a flat tire." "There's something very wrong here, all right, and Entragian is only the surface of it. The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape, and the evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But as young David Carver seems to know - though it scares him nearly to death to realize it - so are the forces summoned to combat them."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Desperation - once a thriving town in the Nevada desert - now stands eerily empty, except for the local cop who patrols a lonely stretch of road where travellers don't expect to see another vehicle, let alone get stopped. But Desperation's cop doesn't just stop them, he seems to be expecting them.

An apocalyptic drama of good and evil, madness and revelation, this is a novel of modern horror and suspense.

"This is knock-out classic horror about the loneliest town off Nevada's Interstate 50-and the scariest."--Publisher's description.

A battle wages between good and evil along Interstate 50 near Desperation, Nevada.

You have the right to remain silent, the big cop said in his robot's voice. If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I'm going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?Something is terribly wrong in Desperation, Nevada -- a small mining town just off Route 50 with a played out open pit copper mine. The streets are wind swept and deserted; animals have the run of the town and something horrific is brewing in the now abandoned mine pit. You won't have a good day in Desperation.

There's a place along interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's known as Desperation, Nevada. It's not a very nice place to live. It's an even worse place to die...

Unsuspecting travelers take a detour to terror when they're arrested by a small town sheriff and jailed in a desolate town whose streets are littered with the dead bodies of local residents. The captives manage to escape, only to discover that Desperation, Nevada is more than just a town gone wrong.

In the No. 1 bestselling tradition of Stephen King's classics like It and Insomnia, Desperation is a powerful novel of good and evil, madness and revelation set in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada, has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. And it is a place where several travelers are abducted by Collie Entragian, the maniacal police officer of Desperation. Entragian uses various ploys for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to 'rescuing' a family from a nonexistent gunman. There's something very wrong here, all right, and Entragian is only the surface of it.

Aficionados of the horror genre have been watching Stephen King's creations skyrocket to best-seller lists all over the world for the past two decades. His prolific imagination has generated over thirty novels, nine screenplays, and five collections of short stories. Desperation takes his readers down a dark path to a place they've seen only in nightmares. The town of Desperation, Nevada, is aptly named. A dead cat nailed to a highway sign is the only welcome extended to the hapless tourists who end up there. Unspeakable evil takes many forms in this mining town, not the least of which is the traffic police. A desperate group of captives, led by a small boy, find themselves engaged in a struggle that reaches apocalyptic proportions. Stephen King's fans will be morbidly delighted to feel the hair stand up on the backs of their necks and the goose bumps rise on their arms. Novice fans will join the ranks of those constant readers who wonder where he gets his ideas.

Desperation is the companion novel to King's The Regulators, which was published simultaneously under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Forget the more-or-less literary novels of recent years, like Dolores Claiborne. These books mark the return of the Stephen King of The Stand and Pet Sematary, where King's main concerns where whether good could defeat evil and how much gore could be squeezed into (or out of) one book. In each novel, the characters and situations are altered as King plays with questions of identity and form. But both really center around a new personification of evil that goes by the name of Tak. Tak wants to rule the world. Somebody has to stop him. Somebody's eyes have to pop out. Somebody's head has to explode. Now that's Stephen King.

A dead cat nailed to a road sign heralds the mining town of Desperation, a town that seems withered in the shade of a man-made mountain known as the China Pit. But it's worse than that, much worse. The highway there is patrolled by a lunatic in uniform - a madman who has made himself the only law west of the Pecos. The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape are both awesome & terrifying...but so are the forces summoned to combat them. Stephen King's genius for suspense has never been so finely honed, his imagination so shuderingly vivid, as when his wayfarers - & the millions who will follow their course - begin to discover the true meaning of the word desperation

Action thriller in which an alien force occupies a succession of Nevadans, until, in the body of a highway cop, it moves on.

A gripping novel by the master of science fiction & horror. Nevada is mostly a stretch of desert you cross on the way to somewhere else. And with someone else, if you're lucky . . . because it's a scary place. Headed down Rt. 50 in the brutal summer heat are people who are never going to reach their destinations. A dead cat nailed to a road sign heralds the little mining town of Desperation. The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape, & the evil that infects the town are both awesome & terrifying. But as David Carver seems to know so are the forces summoned to combat them. An apocalyptic drama of God & evil, madness, & revelation.

Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. Miners at the China Pit have accidentally broken into another dimension and released a horrific creature known as Tak, who takes human form by hijacking some of the town's residents. The forces of good orchestrate a confrontation between this ancient evil and a group of unsuspecting travelers who are lured to the dying town. This rag-tag band of unwilling champions is led by a young boy who speaks to God.

Interstate 50 leads right along to the loneliest place on the face of the earth known as Desperation, Nevada where it's neither fun to live or fun to die until evil is put down forever.

Desperation is a little mining town sitting in the middle-of-nowhere in Nevada. Regulating the traffic there is Collie Entragion, a uniformed madman who considers himself the only law west of the Pecos. There's something wrong here and Entragian is only the surface of it.

While driving along Nevada's Route 55, a group of travelers comes to a mining town called Desperation. The highway there is ruled by a lunatic in uniform.

In Desperation, Nevada an alien force has slaughtered everyone in town and is now in the body of a patrol cop who picks up two motorists. One is a burned-out novelist and the other an eleven-year-old boy who hears the voice of God.

A small mining town in Nevada is a place prone for disappearances not only because of a madman traffic cop but because of the evil that infects the town like a viral hot zone.

"Nevada is mostly a long stretch of desert you cross on the way to somewhere else. To get where you're going you have to pass the little mining town of Desperation. Regulating the traffic there is Collie Entragian, a uniformed madman who considers himself the only law west of the Pecos. There's something wrong here, and Entragian is only the surface of it."--WorldCat.

An evil force invades a mining town in Nevada. It takes control of the body of a highway patrolman and proceeds to kill people. Several cross-country travelers--including a writer, a family on vacation, and a professor and his wife--end up in the little mining town of Desperation, where a crazy policeman and evil forces compel them to fight for their lives. The evil force meets its match in the person of David Carver, 11, who is guided by God himself.

Visitors to a small town in Nevada encounter terrifying forces.

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Starred review from March 30, 2009
From the vault of horror master King comes a terrifying tale of Desperation, Nev., a place ruled by a maniacal man in uniform and haunted by deadly secrets. In true King fashion, the story features a small cast of likable yet deeply flawed protagonists that may or may not make it to the final page in one piece. Narrator Kathy Bates, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in the film adaptation of King's Misery
, takes the reins and holds listeners rapt from start to finish. Bates has the inherent ability to make anything, no matter how over the top, sound realistic and immediate. A Signet paperback.

. Stephen King trudges with amiable doggedness through twenty-one and a half hours of terror and mayhem, courtesy of ye olde psycho cop of Desperation, Nevada. Despite his lack of showmanship and technical facility as a narrator, King has a compelling vocal personality of boyish, twangy mischief. Like flies to wanton boys are we to Stephen King. He seems less interested in spooking us than in inviting us to play with him in his lethal sandbox. The tape, therefore, gives King fans an important insight into his authorial intent, one lacking in many of the TV and film versions of his ghoulishness. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine. HTML:"The terror is relentless" (Publishers Weekly) in Stephen King's #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation, that many will enter on their way to somewhere else. But getting out is not easy as it would seem...
Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada, has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. And it is a place where several travelers are abducted by Collie Entragian, the maniacal police officer of Desperation. Entragian uses various ploys for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to "rescuing" a family from a nonexistent gunman. There's something very wrong here, all right, and Entragian is only the surface of it.

The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape, and the evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But as one of the travelers, young David Carver, seems to know�though it scares him nearly to death to realize it�so are the forces summoned to combat them. "Stephen King's knack for turning the stray junk of pop culture into sick, darkly engrossing thrills has rarely been this much in evidence as in Desperation" (Salon).

Tells of a desparate group of highway travelers who find themselves trapped in a deserted Nevada town by a supernatural menace

Nevada is mostly a long stretch of desert you cross on the way to somewhere else. And with someone else, if you're lucky...because it's a scary place. Headed down Route 50 in the brutal summer heat are people who are never going to reach their destinations.

Nevada is mostly a long stretch of desert you cross on the way to somewhere else. And with someone else, if you're lucky . . . because it's a scary place. Headed down route 50 in the brutal heat are people who are never going to reach their destinations. A dead cat nailed to a road sign heralds the mining town of Desperation. The highway there is patrolled by a lunatic in uniform--a madman who has made himself the only law west of the Pecos.

In the mining town of Desperation, Nevada, unspeakable evil takes many forms, not the least of which is the traffic police. A desperate group of captives, led by a small boy, find themselves engaged in a struggle that reaches apocalyptic proportions.

Hodder are boosting Stephen King's backlist with new covers, new author brand lettering and a marketing campaign which directs readers to the right King title for them.

A group of weary travelers lands in a creepy mining town.

Stephen King, the world's bestselling novelist, was educated at the University of Maine at Orono. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, and their children in Bangor, Maine.

Ein 200-Seelen-Ort in Nevada wird für eine Reise-Gruppe zu einer tödlichen Falle und für die wenigen Überlebenden zu einem Gefängnis. Nur dank der übersinnlichen Fähigkeiten eines Jungen kann dem aus einem alten Bergwerk entwichenen, abgrundtief Bösen das Handwerk gelegt werden..

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I byen Desperation i Nevada indfanges en flok mennesker i noget, som viser sig at være en kamp og et opgør med det onde selv.

Desperation er en lille mineby i Nevadaørkenen, forladt og øde bortset fra nogle ørkendyr og den lokale politibetjent, som standser de forbikørende - næsten som om han har ventet på dem. Der er noget helt galt i byen, og betjenten er kun overfladen.

La route 50 coupe droit travers le d sert du Nevada, sous un soleil crasant. On n'y entend que le jappement lointain des coyotes. C'est l qu'un flic trange, un colosse aux m thodes tr s particuli res, arr te des voyageurs sous des pr textes vagues, puis les contraint de le suivre la ville voisine: D solation.Et le cauchemar commence...Apr s plus de vingt romans, best-sellers plan taires, Stephen King d montre avec clat qu'il n'a rien perdu de sa puissance d'invention. Ce thriller prouvant, au go t d'apocalypse, nous entra ne plus loin que jamais dans la lutte ternelle du Bien et du Mal.

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En la interestatal 50, en el des�?rtico y solitario tramo que atraviesa Nevada, un gato muerto ensartado en un cartel da la bienvenida al peque�?o pueblo minero de Desesperaci�?n. All�?, un polic�?a local pose�?do por un perverso ser se ha erigido en autoridad suprema y sanguinaria, y elige sus v�?ctimas entre los escasos veh�?culos que circulan por la carretera. Aquellos que mueren r�?pidamente son en realidad los m�?s afortunados, ya que para los supervivientes Desesperaci�?n se convertir�? en el escenario de una horrenda pesadilla...

Desperation by Stephen King (1996)

Smb̄yen Desperation regjeres av en brutal bl̜le av en sheriff som i sitt arsenal disponerer langt mer enn bare hn̄dvp̄en. Sammen med en flokk djevelbesatte r̜kenmonstre kaster han byens beboere inn i et avsindig spill p ̄liv og dd̜

Desperation

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