Inside, where things haven't been normal for a long time, are Audrey Wyler and the autistic nephew she cares for, eight-year-old Seth Garin. The mayhem rages around a seemingly still point, a darkened house lit fitfully from within by a flickering television screen. A quiet slice of American suburbia is about to turn to toast. Soon it will begin to roll, and the killing will begin. The only thing that doesn't quite fit is the red van idling just up the hill. The paper boy is making his rounds the Carver kids are bickering at the corner convenience store a Frisbee is flying on the Reeds' lawn Gary Soderson is firing up the backyard barbecue. It's a summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, and on Poplar Street everything's normal. Author of the bestselling novel Thinner and four thrillers that have sold millions in an omnibus edition entitled The Bachman Books, the late Richard Bachman has been described as "Stephen King without a conscience." Now he performs an eerie encore with the posthumous release of The Regulators, a harrowing story of a suburban neighborhood in the grip of surreal terror.
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