- Stephen King
- >
- The Langoliers by Stephen King
The Langoliers by Stephen King
The Langoliers by Stephen King
On a cross-country red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken in Bango, Maine, to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared. The airport shows no signs of life. Yet they hear "radio static" in the distance. Craig Toomy, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a breakdown, believes it is the langoliers, monsters he was afraid of as a child, who attack those who waste time. It is mystery author Bob Jenkins who first theorizes they have flown through a time-rip. Bob declares they have entered a place that forbids time travelers to observe or interfere with past events. It turns out that Craig is right, in a way. Two creatures, followed by hundreds more, emerge from the forest and head for the plane, consuming everything in their path. Can the survivors manage to fly the plane back to Los Angeles, back to the correct time, before the langoliers succeed in their deadly mission to destroy the plane and the world? Dinah Bellman, the young blind girl whose aunt did not survive the time-rip, has the greatest insight of all.
Spine-tingling and propulsive, The Langoliers is a brilliant read from the masterful Stephen King.
SCRIBNER, SOFTCOVER, 2019
THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK.