The Colorado Kid by Stephen King Paperback Book

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Rent The Colorado Kid

Author: Stephen King

Format: Mass Market Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Hard Case Crime

Published: Oct 2005

Genre: Fiction - Crime

Retail Price: $8.99

Pages: 208

Synopsis

Stephen King\'s bestselling unsolved mystery,THE COLORADO KID- inspiration for the TV seriesHAVEN— returns to bookstores for the first time in 10 years in an all-new illustrated edition.\r\n\r\nOn 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 FALCONand 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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Reviews

BookLender review by Patricia on 2007-05-24 00:15:22

i enjoyed this book but it is definitely not the horror/thriller/exciting novel you might expect- if you read the one about the lost kid and baseball, can't remember the name of it- you would like this one. this is about the nature of mystery, it doesn't have the typical murder whodunit outline. i enjoyed the characters and i think i expected the way it ended because it had to end the way it did or the book lost its meaning. if you're looking for thrills, this isn't it- if you enjoy king's contemplative side, you'll like it. i don't think he has lost his touch, like the other reviewer says- he is just applying a different brush to a different type of story.

BookLender review by Elwin on 2007-05-08 17:54:39

Very unusual book - no plot, no mystery, lousy reader, and so on. If you want to waste some time, rent this book. In other words, it stunk!!