NOS4A2
A Novel
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4.3 • 98 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The spine-tingling, bone-chilling novel of supernatural suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Horns—now an AMC original series starring Zachary Quinto, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ashleigh Cummings.
"A masterwork of horror."— Time
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be.
Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world and onto hidden roads that lead to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. The journey across the highway of Charlie's twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor.
Then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble...and finds her way to Charlie. That was a lifetime ago. Now, the only kid ever to escape Charlie's evil is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx hasn't stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. On the road again, he won't slow down until he's taken his revenge. He's after something very special—something Vic can never replace.
As a life-and-death battle of wills builds, Vic McQueen prepares to destroy Charlie once and for all—or die trying.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
From its very first page, NOS4A2 pulses with dread and glitters with enchantment. Victoria McQueen, a girl with a gift for finding lost things, bests Charlie Manx, a man with a talent for making children disappear. But the duo’s final fight won’t come until many years later, when Vic must save her son from a fate more awful than death. Sprung from the Stephen King school of horror, this thriller is strange and impossible to put down. We were afraid to read what happens next, but Joe Hill’s sinister magic pulled us ever deeper into this supernatural fable of innocence versus evil.
Customer Reviews
N0S 4A2
Driving home and having a Rolls Royce in the rear view, made me look twice, it wasn't a wraith but I must say it was still quite unnerving. Especially when I was nearing the end of the book while camping up at Alice lake, we had a troop of cub scouts, so having all these little kids running around, all that was missing were ornaments in the trees, and Christmas music on the radio. It was like reading a book and my environment changed to suit. My own personnel Inscape. Good job Mr. (Hill) King.
N0S4A2
Awesome book had to cram to finish it because just like all of his dads work I refuse to watch the televised or movie version before I finish the written word. Thanks for a great read! Jennifer R. Ontario-Canada
NOS4A2
It was a great ride ; Up until the ending. Just like the bike it ran out of gas ! Maybe his next will make me sweat with "FEAR". THX Mr. Hill