But these overlords, they’re a strange bunch: They walk among us, and they might even be us. Why? It’s the kind of hamlet where a big night of fun involves driving with a six-pack and a shotgun, hardly the sort of place where the overlords seem likely to land. One of them, a leading citizen in the quiet town of Chester’s Mill, is crooked, conniving wheeler-dealer Big Jim Rennie, whose son, a specialist in taking wrong forks in the road, is the local terror but has apparently surrendered his power to awe to larger forces-in this case, the ones who have very gradually sealed off Chester’s Mill from the rest of the world. Check.Īn early scene in King’s latest ( Just After Sunset, 2008, etc.) takes us past Shawshank Prison, if only in the mind of a character-and there are dozens of characters, large and small, whose minds we enter.
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