From a Buick 8

Informationen zum Autor Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books! all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes End of Watch! the short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams! Finders Keepers! Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel)! Doctor Sleep! and Under the Dome . His novel 11/22/63 —a recent Hulu original television series event—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 as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers. His epic series! The Dark Tower! is the basis for a major motion picture from Sony. He is the recipient of 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. Stephen Tobolowsky has appeared in more than 100 movies and 200 television shows! including unforgettable roles in Mississippi Burning ! Groundhog Day ! and Memento . He is the author of The Dangerous Animals Club and My Adventures with God . He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and sons. Zusammenfassung 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. Curt´s avid curiosity took the lead! and 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 what world it came from. In the fall of 2001! a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident! his eightee-year-old boy! Ned! starts coming by the barracks. 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 family secret. Like his father! Ned wants answers... From a Buick 8 is an audiobook 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Stephen King, Stephen/ Rebhorn King
• Assisted by: Becky Ann Baker (Reader / Narrator), Bruce Davison (Reader / Narrator), Peter Gerety (Reader / Narrator), James Rebhorn (Reader / Narrator), Fred Sanders (Reader / Narrator), Stephen Tobolowsky (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2008
• EAN: 9780743581615
• ISBN: 978-0-7435-8161-5
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 127 mm x 51 mm