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On an island off the
coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There’s no
identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair
of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics
turns up any clues, and it’s more than a year before the man
is identified.
And that’s just the beginning of the mystery. Because the
more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances
of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible
crime? Or something stranger still...?
No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the
darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to
investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell
Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene,
one of the world’s great storytellers presents a moving and
surprising tale whose subject is nothing less than the
nature of mystery itself...
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