SUMMARY: Once upon a time, a fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 ("cancer of the pseudonym"), but this last gripping Bachman novel resurfaced after being hidden away for
The Blaze
β Scribed by Chad Dundas
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 203 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0698407148
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
One man knows the connection between two extraordinary acts of arson, fifteen years apart, in his Montana hometown --if only he could remember it.
Having lost much of his memory from a traumatic brain injury sustained in Iraq, army veteran Matthew Rose is called back to Montana after his father's death to settle his affairs, and hopefully to settle the past as well. It's not only a blank to him, but a mystery. Why as a teen did he suddenly become sullen and vacant, abandoning the activities and people that had meant most to him? How did he, the son of hippy activists, wind up enlisting in the first place?
Then on his first night back, Matthew sees a house go up in flames, and it turns out a local college student has died inside. And this event sparks a memory of a different fire, an unsolved crime from long ago, a part of Matthew's past that might lead to all the answers he's been searching for. What he finds will connect the old fire and the new, a series of...
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