恐怖大師史蒂芬‧金的駭世寓言
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改編電影,約翰庫薩克、山繆傑克森主演,8/12毀滅倒數!
手機(cell)與地獄(hell)一詞押韻,其來有自……
請小心接聽史蒂芬‧金的追魂奪命叩!
十月一日,世間萬物一切如常,住在緬因州的漫畫家柯雷來到波士頓,漫步走在波尤斯敦街上,腳步輕盈,甚至幾乎是又蹦又跳,因為他才剛簽下了出版合約,總算有機會以畫漫畫養家,而不必再勉強靠教畫糊口。興奮之餘,他買了一件昂貴的小禮物想送給長年陪他吃苦的妻子,也想好了該買什麼禮物送給兒子強尼,順便再犒賞自己一下吧!柯雷只覺得前景一片光明美好。
無奈好景不長,剎那之間天下大亂,四處盡是混亂與血腥,人性褪盡表相,僅剩下最原始的本能……柯雷僥倖逃過一劫,與少數劫後餘生者相遇後,發現人類文明已陷入了最漆黑的暗夜。但柯雷一心只想回到緬因州老家探視妻兒的安危,於是他夥同幾位難民一起北上。沿途中他們不斷看見彷彿密碼的塗鴉:『卡什瓦克=無話』,這究竟是一絲希望的曙光,還是潛藏著更駭人的兇機?……
現代人彷彿片刻都離不開手機,根據聯合國統計,全世界共有超過25億支手機,台灣也有超過2200萬支手機,沒有手機者寥寥無幾。但史蒂芬‧金以扣人心弦、緊張刺激的情節傳達了他對現代科技的反思,更傳達得震懾人心!
*本書中譯本<<手機>>由皇冠出版
The next call you take could be your last in this terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller by Stephen King--now a major motion picture starring Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack.
"If any of them looks over here, sees us, and decides to come after us, we're done. We won't have a hope in hell."
On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make art instead of teaching it. But all those good feelings about the future change in a hurry thanks to a devastating phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse. The delivery method is a cell phone--everyone's cell phone. Now Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a relentless human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve. There's really no escaping this nightmare. But for Clay, an arrow points the way home to his family in Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north, they begin to see the crude signs confirming their direction. A promise of a safe haven, perhaps, or quite possibly the deadliest trap of all....