Blaze

A Novel

Hardcover, 386 pages

English language

Published June 14, 2007 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-1-4165-5484-4
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OCLC Number:
122897311

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The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the first time. Stephen King's "dark half" may have saved the best for last.

A fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 ("cancer of the pseudonym"), but in late 2006 King found the original typescript of Blaze among his papers at the University of Maine's Fogler Library ("How did this get here?!"), and decided that with a little revision it ought to be published.

Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. --of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs--and then threw …

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
  • Fiction - General
  • Mystery/Suspense
  • General
  • Suspense
  • Fiction / General
  • Mystery & Detective - General
  • Kidnapping
  • Maine
  • Suspense fiction