{"product_id":"2026200018543-secondhand-desperation","title":"Desperation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the vast, sunbaked emptiness of the Nevada desert, a terrifying force has taken hold of the small mining town of Desperation — and the unlucky travellers who find themselves pulled off the highway are about to discover that the predator wearing a sheriff's badge is the least of their nightmares. Desperation is Stephen King at his most visceral and mythological, pitting a disparate group of survivors against an ancient, malevolent entity that has been awakened from the earth itself, hungry and inexhaustible, wielding the bodies of the living and the dead with equal ease.\n\nKing constructs a masterwork of cosmic horror, interweaving themes of faith, sacrifice, and the raw, desperate courage that ordinary people summon when confronted with genuine evil. The novel stands as a bold theological argument as much as a ghost story, asking whether God can be trusted when the world is so thoroughly soaked in darkness. Written in tandem with its thematic twin The Regulators — published simultaneously under King's Richard Bachman pseudonym — Desperation shares characters and a universe while charting an entirely independent and unforgettable course. Readers who dare to enter the town of Desperation will find it an experience impossible to shake.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50736424976603,"sku":"2026200018543-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8ee1a5ab-0a03-4127-8892-5dd1c7b1201e.png?v=1792122961","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200018543-secondhand-desperation","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}