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The Regulators

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19th June 1997

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340671771

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Wentworth, Ohio: a small friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets in the E-Z shop and writer Johnny Marinville is the only resident who minds his own business.

On Poplar Street, apart from the impending storm, it’s just a normal summer’s day – with frisbees flying, law mowers humming and barbeques grilling. As the paperboy makes his round, he is unaware of the chrome red van idling up the hill.

Soon the residents will be caught up in a game of wills as the regulators arrive in force to face a child whose powers of expression are just awakening…

Reviews

<i>Guardian</i>
A writer of excellence...King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel
<i>The Times</i>
Popular fiction's most prolific terror-monger
<i>Guardian</i>
A writer of excellence...King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel
<i>The Times</i>
Popular fiction's most prolific terror-monger
<i>Telegraph</i>
Slides slickly down an eager gullet
<i>Telegraph</i>
Slides slickly down an eager gullet