His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Gwendy's Final Task is a wildly suspenseful and at the same time deeply moving novel in which 'horror giants' ( Publishers Weekly) Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities? Once again, it is up to Gwendy Peterson, now a United States Senator battling the early symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease, to keep it from them. With the passing of time, the box has grown ever stronger and evil forces are striving to possess it. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once more forced to deal with the temptations that the box represented - an amazing sense of wellbeing, balanced by a terrifyingly dark urge towards disaster. Years later, the button box re-entered Gwendy's life. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful novel which is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy.
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