The âextraordinaryâ (Booklist) novel of a cursed manâs quest to find the source of his nightmare and to reverse it before he becomesâŚnothing at all. This #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, âpulsates with evilâŚ[and] will have you on the edge of your seatâ (Publishers Weekly).
âYou canât do anything⌠Itâs gone too far. You understand, Halleck? TooâŚfar.
Attorney Billy Halleck seriously enjoys living his life of upper-class excess. Heâs got it allâan expensive home in Connecticut, a loving familyâŚand fifty extra pounds that his doctor repeatedly warns will be the death of him. Then, in a moment of carelessness, Halleck commits vehicular manslaughter when he strikes a jaywalking old woman crossing the street. But Halleck has some powerful local connections, and gets off with a slap on the wristâŚmuch to the fury of the womanâs mysterious and ancient father, who exacts revenge with a single word: âThinner.â Now a terrified Halleck finds the weight once so difficult to shed dropping effortlesslyâand rapidlyâby the week. Soon there will be nothing left of Billy HalleckâŚunless he can somehow locate the source of his living nightmare and reverse whatâs happened to him before he utterly wastes awayâŚ