An epic war between good and evil, a gory,
glorious story that will thrill the millions of
hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly
satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the
King canon. King says he wanted to know what
happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of
The Shining, after his terrible experience in the
Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting Doctor Sleep
picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working
at a hospice in rural New Hampshire, and the very
special twelve-year old girl he must save from a tribe
of murderous paranormals. On highways across
America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel
in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly
old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as
Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The
True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the 'steam'
that children with the 'shining' produce when they are
slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants
of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific
childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades,
desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair,
alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New
Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him and a
job at a nursing home where his remnant 'shining' power
provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided
by a prescient cat, he becomes 'Doctor Sleep.' Then
Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her
spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that
reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle
for Abra's soul and survival . . .
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