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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent... read more
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"Captain Trips"
The novel is divided into three parts, or books. The first is titled "Captain Trips" and takes place over nineteen days, with the escape and spread of a human-made biological weapon, a superflu (influenza) virus known formally as "Project Blue" but most commonly as... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Cast of Characters
- Charlie D. Campion: A soldier
- General William "Billy" Starkey: General
- Stuart Redman: A quiet man from the fictional town of Arnette
- Fran Goldsmith: A college student from Ogunquit, Maine
- Peter Goldsmith-Redman: Add a description of this character.
- Harold Lauder: 16 years old
- Glen Bateman: An associate professor of sociology
- Kojak: Glen Bateman's dog
- Susan Stern: a former student at Kent State University
- Dayna Jurgens: A community college P.T. instructor from Xenia, Ohio
- Larry Underwood: a cocky young singer and composer
- Nadine Cross: A teacher at a private school in Vermont
- Lucy Swann: twenty-four year-old New Hampshire housewife
- Judge Farris: A man in his late seventies
- Nick Andros: A twenty-two year-old deaf-mute drifter originally from Caslin, Nebraska,
- Tom Cullen: a man initially thought to be in his mid-20's to mid-30's who suffers from mild to moderate mental retardation
- Ralph Brentner: an amiable Midwest farmer
- Randall Flagg: also known as "the Dark Man" or "the Walkin’ Dude"
- Lloyd Henreid: a petty criminal
- The Trashcan Man: a schizophrenic pyromaniac
- The Kid: a thug from Shreveport, Louisiana
- Julie Lawry: An unstable sex-crazed teenager
- Whitney Horgan: An ex-Army butcher
- Jenny Engstrom: A former nightclub dancer
- The Rat Man: a pirate-like hood
First Sentence
Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
Table of Contents
Errata
In the final chapters Larry said he opened for "Arrowsmith" once, when it should be Aerosmith.
Authors & Contributors
- Stephen King (Author)
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