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The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered 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, just 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 if John Q. Public never found out about it.
Curt's avid curiosity taking the lead, 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 18-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.
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Ned Wilcox, Troop D, Curtis Wilcox, Sander Freemont Dearborn, Ennis Rafferty, Brian Lippy, Buick Driver, AC/DC, Blondie, Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods, Brandy, Bullwinkle, Chauncey, God, Jack, Jesus, Jill, Jimmy, Judas Priest, Mister Dillon, Natasha, Rocky, Monster, Roslyn, Satan, Tribbles, Johnny Ace, Arky Arkanian, James Arness, Herb Avery, Matt Babicki, Mrs. Babicki, Boris Badinov, Joan Baez, P.T. Barnum, Lizzie Borden, Hubert Bossey, Sid Brownell, Carl Brundage, Mrs. Brundage, Phil Candleton, Floyd B. Clouse, Brian Cole, Andy Colucci, Stephanie Colucci, Columbo, Marie Curie, Jeff Cutler, Dadier brothers, Mr. Dearborn, Mrs. Dearborn, Cecil B. DeMille, Steve Devoe, Diment, James Dockerty, Bob Dylan, Dicky-Duck Eliot, Flanders, Buck Flanders, William Kirk Frady, Miss Frances, Joe Friday, Mrs. Garrett, Orville Garrett, Cynthia Garris, Mr. Greenville, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Sherlock Holmes, George Hull, Edith Hyams, Mr. Hyams, Justin Islington, Eddie Jacubois, Mr. Jones, Kalin Twins, John Lennon, Paul Loving, Bela Lugosi, Jacob Marley, John H. Maturin, Esther Mayhew, Tom McClannahan, Sandra McCracken, George Morgan, Rosellen Nevers, Tracy O'Day, Travis O'Day, Jackie O'Hara, Homer Oosler, Robert Oppenheimer, Johnny Parker, Shirley Pasternak, Brady Paul, Peter Quinland, Edit Rafferty, Robbie Rennert, Nelson Riddle, Albert Rizzo, Bradley Roach, Norman Rockwell, Bibi Roth, Hudson Royer, Richard T. Rumsfeld, Mark Rushing, Mike Sanders, Randy Santerre, Tony Schoondist, Frank Sinatra, Christian Soder, Frank Soderburg, Samuel Stamson, George Stankowski, The Surfaris, Teague, Darth Vader, John H. Watson, Lawrence Welk, Tony Joe White, Janet Wilcox, Joan Wilcox, Michelle Wilcox, Orville Wright, Wilbur WrightPlaces
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Buick 8: Un Coche Perverso
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Buick 8, un coche perverso
November 19, 2002, Plaza y Janes
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Una novela sobre una fascinación enfermiza y peligrosa. Una novela de verdadero terror. Pensilvania, 1979. Llega un extraño a una gasolinera para repostar. Conduce un Buick modelo 1954 pero en perfecto estado. El conductor va al baño y nunca reaparece. La policía se hace cargo del coche, que ahora no funciona, y lo guarda en una nave detrás de la comisaría. Y aquí empieza una historia escalofriante, la historia de un coche con su propia vida, perversa y maliciosa. Los agentes siguen su trabajo, pero el coche de vez en cuando interviene: a veces sus radios y teléfonos no funcionan. A veces el coche empieza a moverse, a producir relámpagos y el maletero se abre para escupir objetos indescriptibles. Hasta parece que es responsable de varias muertes, entre ellas la del agente Wilcox. En el otoño de 2001 el hijo del fallecido agente empieza a trabajar en la comisaría y decide que ha de saber la verdad del Buick 8.
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