Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour deforce featuring more than 100 characters--some heroic, somediabolical--and a supernatural element as baffling and chilling as anyhe's ever conjured.On an entirely normal, beautiful fall dayin Chester's Mills, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealedoff from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crashinto it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand issevered as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in theneighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode onimpact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, andwhen--or if--it will go away.Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now ashort-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepidcitizens--town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant atthe hospital, a selectwoman, and three brave kids. Against them standsBig Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing--even murder--tohold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secretin a dark pantry.But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.Withsome of the most spectacularly sinister characters King has everimagined and a driving plot, Under the Dome is Stephen King at his epicbest. This book will thrill every reader who's ever loved a novel byKing.