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The Dead Zone
Stephen King
After emerging from a five-year coma, Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities. When he shakes hands with an aspiring politician, he sees a terrifying vision of nuclear apocalypse that forces him to make an impossible choice.
Did You Know?
- •King's first novel published by Viking Press after leaving Doubleday
- •The 1983 film adaptation directed by David Cronenberg starred Christopher Walken
- •The novel was partly inspired by the question: if you could go back in time, would you kill Hitler?
- •A successful TV series ran from 2002 to 2007
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