MasterstorytellerStephenKing(writingasRichardBachman)presentsthisgrippingandremarkableNewYorkTimesbestsellingcrimenovelaboutadamagedyoungmanwhoembarksonanill-advisedkidnappingplot--aworkastautandrivetingasanythinghehaseverwritten.Onceuponatime,afellownamedRichardBachmanwroteBlazeonanOlivettitypewriter,thenturnedthemachineovertoStephenKing,whousedittowriteCarrie.Bachmandiedin1985(“cancerofthepseudonym“),butthislastgrippingBachmannovelresurfacedafterbeinghiddenawayfordecades--anunforgettablecrimestorytingedwithsadnessandsuspense.ClaytonBlaisdell,Jr.,wasalwaysasmall-timedelinquent.Nonetoobrighteither,thankstothebeatingshegotasakid.ThenBlazemetGeorgeRackley,aseasonedprowithahundredconsandonebigidea.Thekidnappingshouldgooffwithoutahitch,withGeorgeasthebrainsbehindtheirdangerousscheme.Butthere’sonlyoneproblem:bythetimethedealgoesdown,Blaze’spartnerincrimeisdead.Orishe?
