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Nevada is mostly a long stretch of desert you cross on the way to somewhere else. And with someone else, if you're lucky...because it's a scary place. Headed down Route 50 in the brutal summer heat are people who are never going to reach their destinations. Like the Jacksons, a professor and his wife going home to New York City; the Carvers, a Wentworth, Ohio, family bound for a vacation at Lake Tahoe; and aging literary lion Johnny Marinville, inventing a gonzo image for himself astride a 700-pound Harley.
A dead cat nailed to a road sign heralds the little mining town of Desperation, a town that seems withered in the shade of a man-made mountain known as the China Pit. But it's worse than that, much worse. Regulating the traffic there is Collie Entragian, an outsize uniformed madman who considers himself the only law west of the Pecos. God forbid you should be missing a license plate or find yourself with a flat tire.
There's something very wrong here, all right, and Entragian is only the surface of it. The secrets embedded in Desperation's landscape, and the evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But as young David Carver seems to know - though it scares him nearly to death to realize it - so are the forces summoned to combat them.
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Fiction, Travelers, Traffic police, American fiction, Horror tales, Horror, Suspense, Psychological fiction, Spanish: Adult Fiction, Horror fiction, Police, American Horror tales, American literature, Large type books, Fiction, horror, Nevada, fiction, Spanish language, Novela estadounidense, Novela fantástica, Novela psicológica, Cuentos de terror, Viajeros, Novela, Carver, david (fictitious character), fictionPeople
Tak, The Jacksons, The Carvers, John Edward Marinville, Steve Ames, Cynthia Smith, Brian Ross, Cary Ripton, Brad Josephson, Collie Entragian, David Carver, God, Mary Jackson, Peter Jackson, Kirsten Carver, Ralph Carver, Ellen Carver, Tom BillingsleyPlaces
Nevada, Despearation, China Pit, Interstate 50, New York City, Wentworth, Ohio, Lake TahoeTimes
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Desperation
2007, Hodder
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Desperation
1997 08, Signet
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Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. Miners at the China Pit have accidentally broken into another dimension and released a horrific creature known as Tak, who takes human form by hijacking some of the town's residents. The forces of good orchestrate a confrontation between this ancient evil and a group of unsuspecting travelers who are lured to the dying town. This rag-tag band of unwilling champions is led by a young boy who speaks to God.
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