Stephen king - Roadword (ebook)

What happens when one good-and-angry man fights back is murder - and then some..

Prologue I don't know why. You don't know why. Most likely God don't know why, either. It's just Government business, that's all. Man-in-the-street interview concerning Viet Nam, circa 1967 But Viet Nam was over and the country was getting on.

On this hot August afternoon in 1972, the WHLM Newsmobile was parked near Westgate at the end of the Route 784 expressway. There was a small crowd around a bunting-covered podium that had been hurriedly tossed together; the bunting was thin flesh on a skeleton of naked planks. Behind it, at the top of a grassy embankment, were the highway tollbooths. In front of it, open, marshy land stretched toward the suburban hem of the city's outskirts. A young reporter named Dave Albert was doing a series of man-on-the-street interviews while he and his co-workers waited for the mayor and the governor to arrive for the ground-breaking ceremony. He held the microphone toward an elderly man wearing tinted spectacles...

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