![]() ![]() ![]() This year, Curtis Wilcox has been killed on the highway after hailing a tractor-trailer, and now his teenaged son Ned wants the lowdown on the station’s cover-up about the Buick 8. Lead investigator is Trooper Curtis Wilcox, who dissects the strange bat and finds egglike one-eyed baby bats inside. Then a girl-battering tattooed kid gets sucked in. All this began 20 years ago, and the troopers have watched the car go through otherworldly shifts: it gives birth to a big batlike thing a sofa-sized fish unfamiliar green beetles a lilylike plant and it has sucked one trooper into its trunk, teleporting him God knows where. Then the vehicle starts to make local earthquakes and gives off a purple light that outlines the nails in the shed walls. ![]() Why? Because the car is only a poor simulation of a car: the battery’s not hooked up, the dashboard is stage-dressing, and most of the car seems made of unknown materials. Troopers come and move the Buick to Shed B out behind their precinct house. A strange “man” in a black coat and hat pulls up to a nearly deserted gas station in rural western Pennsylvania in a weird Buick 8 Roadmaster and, while his tank is being filled, disappears behind the station. His latest is less gross-out than police procedural. ![]() Why does King ( Dreamcatcher, 2001, etc.) write such gross stuff (“I have the heart of a small boy. ![]()
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