Release Date:- 2009-12-24
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Donāt miss the āharrowingā (The Washington Post) #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from master storyteller Stephen King that inspired the hit television series, following the apocalyptic scenario of a town cut off from the rest of the world.
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chesterās Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardenerās hand is severed as āthe domeā comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and whenāor ifāit will go away.
Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizensātown newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physicianās assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothingāeven murderāto hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isnāt just short. Itās running out.