Stephen King 
Desperation 

The terror is relentless (Publishers Weekly) in Stephen Kings #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation, that many will enter on their way to somewhere else. But getting out is not easy as it would seem Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada, has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. And it is a place where several travelers are abducted by Collie Entragian, the maniacal police officer of Desperation. Entragian uses various ploys for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to rescuing a family from a nonexistent gunman. Theres something very wrong here, all right, and Entragian is only the surface of it. The secrets embedded in Desperations landscape, and the evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But as one of the travelers, young David Carver, seems to knowthough it scares him nearly to death to realize itso are the forces summoned to combat them. Stephen Kings knack for turning the stray junk of pop culture into sick, darkly engrossing thrills has rarely been this much in evidence as in Desperation (Salon).