“I’m sure,” he said, “but let’s keep the shiny side up, Claudie, okay?” What made it cool.Ĭhuck Thompson, her instructor, touched the control yoke gently, then pointed at the instrument panel. Today was the first time she had really understood what made flying great. But this wasn’t mere enjoyment it was exhilaration. She had enjoyed the experience from the first. Although of the opinion that if God had wanted man to fly, He would have given him wings, Andy was an extremely coaxable man, and eventually Claudette had gotten her way. The flying lessons were courtesy of her husband, who was the town’s First Selectman. “Chuck, I think I see two boys beside the Peace Bridge! Fishing!” Her very delight made her laugh. The sun raced along the surface of Prestile Stream as the Seneca V overflew it, both plane and water cutting the town on the same diagonal course. The steeple of the Congo Church looked sharp enough to pierce the unblemished sky. Cars trundled along Main Street, flashing up winks of sun.

Excerptįrom two thousand feet, where Claudette Sanders was taking a flying lesson, the town of Chester’s Mill gleamed in the morning light like something freshly made and just set down.

But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing-even murder-to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when-or if-it will go away.ĭale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens-town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Don’t miss the “harrowing” ( The Washington Post) #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from master storyteller Stephen King that inspired the hit television series, following the apocalyptic scenario of a town cut off from the rest of the world.

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