Hardcover, 880 pages
English language
Published Oct. 14, 2009 by Hodder & Stoughton.
Under the Dome
by Stephen King
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Inexplicably, an invisible barrier has descended over the town. A woodchuck is chopped right in half; a gardener's hand is severed at the wrist: the plane explodes with sheets of flame spreading to the ground and Dale Barbara. Iraq war vet turned short- order cook. is force.d to turn back into the town he so desperately needed to leave.
As residents speculate about what has cut them off from the rest of the world, the Army searches for an inside man. Barbara is put in charge. But Big Jim Rennie, the man who holds the town in his powerful grip. has other plans. And the Dome could just be the answer to his prayers.
As food, electricity and water run short and children start to have premonitions of a terrifying Halloween. 'Barbie' is forced to take on Big Jim and his renegade supporters. Now time is running out for those …
Inexplicably, an invisible barrier has descended over the town. A woodchuck is chopped right in half; a gardener's hand is severed at the wrist: the plane explodes with sheets of flame spreading to the ground and Dale Barbara. Iraq war vet turned short- order cook. is force.d to turn back into the town he so desperately needed to leave.
As residents speculate about what has cut them off from the rest of the world, the Army searches for an inside man. Barbara is put in charge. But Big Jim Rennie, the man who holds the town in his powerful grip. has other plans. And the Dome could just be the answer to his prayers.
As food, electricity and water run short and children start to have premonitions of a terrifying Halloween. 'Barbie' is forced to take on Big Jim and his renegade supporters. Now time is running out for those living under the Dome. Can they find what has created it before it's too late? --front flap