@2@@20@Stephen King's international bestselling - and highly acclaimed - novel, also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks@21@@3@@2@The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story. @3@@2@Evil murderer or holy innocent - whichever he is - Coffey has strange powers which may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him.@3@
A chilling tale from two of the greatest storytellers of our time...Twelve-year-old Jack spends his days alone in a deserted coastal town, his father gone, his mother dying. Then he meets a stranger - and embarks on a terrifying journey. For Jack must find the Talisman, the only thing that can save his mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories, a parallel world where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape.
All kinds of convicts are imprisoned at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, but there is none like the new prisoner, John Coffey, who has been sentenced to death for raping two young girls. Is Coffey a devil in human form, or is he just a completely different kind of being? From the author of DOLORES CLAIBORNE, INSOMNIA, ROSE MADDER and DESPERATION.
