But when he encounters a ruthlessly ambitious and amoral man who promises a terrifying fate for all humanity, Johnny must find a way to prevent a harrowing predestination from becoming reality. Johnny Smith comes back from the void with an extraordinary gift that becomes his life’s curse…presenting visions of what was and what will be for the innocent and guilty alike. But it isn’t until Johnny’s a grown man-now having survived a horrifying auto injury that plunged him into a coma lasting four-and-a-half years-that his special abilities really push to the fore. Johnny Smith stayed there a long, long time.' When Johnny Smith was six-years-old, head trauma caused by a bad ice-skating accident left him with a nasty bruise on his forehead and, from time to time, those hunches…infrequent but accurate snippets of things to come. The Dead Zone by Stephen King - Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A 1 New York Times bestseller about a man who wakes up from a five-year coma. 'There was only blackness and that universal emptiness. The book spawned a 1983 film adaptation as well as a television series.Now available for the first time in a mass-market premium paperback edition-the #1 New York Times bestseller of a reluctant clairvoyant who must weigh his options when he suddenly sees the terrible future awaiting mankind. The Dead Zone is King's seventh novel and the fifth under his own name. The TV series Castle Rock takes place in this fictional town and makes references to the Strangler whom Johnny helped track down in The Dead Zone. The Dead Zone is the first story by King to feature the fictional town of Castle Rock, which serves as the setting for several later stories and is referenced in others.

The book was nominated for the Locus Award in 1980 and was dedicated to King's son Owen.

Though earlier King books were successful, The Dead Zone was the first of his novels to rank among the ten best-selling novels of the year in the United States. When some information is blocked from his perception, Johnny refers to that information as being trapped in the part of his brain that is permanently damaged, 'the dead zone.' The novel also follows a serial killer in Castle Rock, and the life of rising politician Greg Stillson, both of whom are evils Johnny must eventually face. The story follows Johnny Smith, who awakens from a coma of nearly five years and, apparently as a result of brain damage, now experiences clairvoyant and precognitive visions triggered by touch. The Dead Zone is a science fiction thriller novel by Stephen King published in 1979.

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