Type: Hardcover Condition: Used, Like new-Mint. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The dust cover may show very slight wear on the very corner edges. This book had been well preserved and is in mint condition. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages. Details: From A Buick 8, by Stephen King *First Edition ISBN: 0743211375 Pages: 356 Published: 2002 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 took the lead and they investi- gated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years, the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the back- ground 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 eighteen-year-old boy, Ned, starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dear- born, 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 win- dow 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.