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We Tracked Down The Goods For Stephen King's MILE 81 eBook Novella

In our weekly segment of "What We Missed - The Week In Review" we informed you that novelist Stephen King was releang a new eBook in September entitled Mile 81. What we didn't have at the time was any plot details for you...but because we're so awesome, we searched real hard and we managed to track down the synops for the 80-page novella. But before you read on, there's one other thing that we thought you might like to know like

- as a bonus the eBook download will feature a excerpt from the author's upcoming novel 11/22/63 which is due out this fall. See, we knew you would like that.

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Mile 81 is due out on September 1, 2011 and will be available for the Apple, Kindle, Nook and Android line of e-readers for $2.99.

You can pre-order the book HERE shortly.

Plot Synops:

At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s the place where Pete mmons goes when his older brother, who’s supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play “paratroopers over the de.”

Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.

Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn’t been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the gn that says “closed, no services.” The driver’s door opens but nobody gets out.

Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls “the ultimate insurance manual,” but it isn’t going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.

Ten minutes later Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton’s cracked cell phone near the wagon door – and gets too close herself. By the time Pete mmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids – Rachel and Blake Luser – and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon.

With the heart of Stand By Me and the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81 is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road gns…
Anonymous Sunday 7/17/2011 at 10:16 PM | 78843
cant wait !!
latingoddyss Monday 7/18/2011 at 03:53 PM | 78893