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"I will kill 13 innocent people and 1 guilty person. Thus, those who caused the death of the innocent will suffer. This is an act of Atonement."
Fourteen citizens are targeted by a self-proclaimed vigilante. Signed by someone named Bill Wilson, the letter, which reached the Buckeye City police, sows panic. Especially when it becomes clear that the murderer is choosing his victims at random.
Women's rights activist Kate McKay has just embarked on a series of controversial speaking engagements in the United States, ignoring the threats of an individual who seems determined to silence her at all costs.
At the heart of both cases is Holly Gibney, Stephen King's favorite character.
Thrilling, caustic, and scandalously captivating, this novel explores the dark corners of the justice system. Anger as an ideology and the capacity to resist. He confirms, once again, the mastery of a writer who has never ceased to explore what makes us human and what makes us monsters.
