Desperation, a recent Stephen King novel, is not just a book, but an experience that leaves the reader frightened, paranoid, and questioning his moral beliefs. Picture, if you will, a lone, crazed Nevada policeman who pulls over vehicles on a lonely desert highway and forcefully takes away their occupants. Whichever of them he doesn’t kill immediately, he locks up in the jail of the small desolate town of Desperation. Among those captured are the …showed first 75 words of 752 total…

…showed last 75 words of 752 total…particular case, King tells of the prior intentions of the Carver family. The story goes into such believable detail that it is difficult to take as fiction. He tells of how they had started out as “Four Happy Wanderers” as was detailed into the pinstripe of their RV, how they had suddenly blown four simultaneous flat tires, and how they were “rescued” by what seemed at the time like an outgoing officer of the law.