Title:
| The Outsider
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Author:
| Stephen King
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Artist:
| tbd
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Publisher:
| Hodder & Stoughton
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ISBN:
| ISBN-10: 1473676355 ISBN-13: 978-1473676350
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Publication Year:
| May 22nd, 2018
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State:
| Trade Hardback (496 pages)
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Issue Price:
| £20.00
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First Edition Identifiers:
| "First Hodder edition, May 2018" and a Single 1 on Copyright Page
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Comments:
| As usual, WH Smith produced a Purple variant cover for this edition.
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An eleven-year-old boy is found in a town park, hideously assaulted and murdered. The fingerprints (and later DNA) are unmistakably those of the town’s most popular baseball coach, Terry Maitland, a man of impeccable reputation, with a wife and two daughters. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland coached, orders an immediate and public arrest. Maitland is taken to jail, his claim to innocence scorned. Maitland has a foolproof alibi, with footage to prove that he was in another city when the crime was committed. But that doesn't save him either.
King constructs a propulsive plot, and a race against time to uncover the identity of a terrifying and diabolical killer who has left victims—and “perpetrators”—across the country, and who is on his way to his next horrific act.
King’s psychological suspense is at its most riveting in this extraordinarily dramatic and eerie story. He is devastatingly vivid on the experience of being falsely blamed—the effect on the accused, the spouse, the children; the suspicion of friends, even the most loyal; the impossibility of ever being innocent again (if you are lucky too enough to live). He is also masterful at showing us that supernatural monsters are startlingly like human beings who do monstrous things.
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