In a small town in New England, in the early 1960s, a shadow falls over a little boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up and sees an impressive man, the new priest. Along with his beautiful wife, the charismatic Reverend Charles Jacobs becomes an object of worship among his parishioners. Until tragedy strikes...

Many years later, when Jamie reunites with Jacobs, he is now a wandering guitarist, addicted to heroin, broke and desperate at thirty-five. But Jacobs is no longer the same man either. Their old bond transforms into a deal more terrible than anything that even the devil could devise – and Jamie discovers that the word "resurrection" can have multiple meanings.

A rich, deeply terrifying novel, with perhaps the most horrific ending ever written by King, about addiction, religion, music, and what may await us on the other side. A masterpiece, in the grand tradition of American literature from Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville.