Stephen ?King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most
popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now
middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very
special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in
search of sustenance. They look harmless?mostly old, lots of polyester, and
married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns,
The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the ?steam? that children with the
?shining? produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the
inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year,
Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father?s legacy of
despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town,
an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant
?shining? power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a
prescient cat, he becomes ?Doctor Sleep.? Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra
Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that
reignites Dan?s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra?s soul and
survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that
will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly
satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.