Stephen King Desperation

Peter und Mary Jackson geraten auf ihrer Fahrt durch Nevada in einen ausweglosen Alptraum: Ein psychopathischer Fremder verschleppt sie in die verlassene Bergarbeiterstaddt Desperation, wo in einem Minenschacht das Monster TAK haust. TAK ernährt sich aus der Lebensenergie von Menschen …

Peter und Mary Jackson geraten auf ihrer Fahrt durch Nevada in einen ausweglosen Alptraum: Ein psychopathischer Fremder verschleppt sie in die verlassene Bergarbeiterstaddt Desperation, wo in einem Minenschacht das Monster TAK haust. TAK ernährt sich aus der Lebensenergie von Menschen …

Desperation è il nome appropriato per la tetra cittadina nel deserto del Nevada in cui approdano alcuni ignari viaggiatori. A vegliare sull'ordine pubblico c'è Collie Entragian, un poliziotto con un senso dell'ordine e della legge del tutto particolare. Ma l'uomo è solo la modesta propaggine della diabolica presenza che ha contagiato Desperation e ne ha invaso il sottosuolo: un'entità terrificante che scatenerà un apocalittico scontro fra bene e male, fra follia e rivelazione.

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.