Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. First edition, first printing hardcover includes original fold out poster. Mylar cover included.
“It’s funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?”
The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barrackes ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answers 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. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous—and that it would be better off if John Q. Public never found out about it.
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 whatever world it came from.
In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his eighteen-year-old boy, Ned, starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. 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 the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well…
From a Buick 8 is a novel 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.
Read Alikes for From a Buick 8: Christine by Stephen King; Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill; The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff; One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. First edition, first printing hardcover includes original fold out poster. Mylar cover included.
“It’s funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?”
The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barrackes ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answers 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. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous—and that it would be better off if John Q. Public never found out about it.
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 whatever world it came from.
In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his eighteen-year-old boy, Ned, starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. 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 the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well…
From a Buick 8 is a novel 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.
Read Alikes for From a Buick 8: Christine by Stephen King; Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill; The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff; One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz
ISBN 0-7432-1137-5
Stephen King
2002
