Roadwork

Review King mesmerizes the reader. (_Chicago Sun-Times_) Product Description #1 bestselling master of suspense... King's other half can be even creepier. They're tearing down Bart Dawes's home, leveling his memories, and destroying his past, all for a new highway extension. Funny what that kind of progress can do to a man. Scary, too. Ready Upoad : ? Roadwork is a thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1981 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books. The story takes place in an unnamed Midwestern city in 1972–1974. Grieving over the death of his son and the disintegration of his marriage, a man is driven to mental instability when he learns that both his home and his workplace will be demolished to make way for an extension to an interstate highway. ---------- Also contained in: - [The Bachman Books][2] - [The Bachman Books](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24796729W) [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81591W/The_Bachman_Books_(Rage_The_Long_Walk_Roadwork_The_Running_Man) What happens when one good-and-angry man fights back is murder'and then some'. Bart Dawes is standing in the way of progress. A new highway extension is being built right over the laundry plant where he works'and right over his home. The house he has lived in for twenty years'where he has made love with his wife'played with his son'. But before the city paves over that part of Dawes' life, he's got one more party to throw'and it'll be a blast'. With an Introduction by the Author, 'The Importance of Being Bachman' A lone man takes on the wheels of progress in a showdown of cataclysmic proportions. When a highway project puts him out of work and threatens to destroy his home, he has more than enough time on his hands to plot his revenge. Driving his wife and friends away with his obstinate refusal to give in, he pushes the powers-that-be to the limit, taking a stand against what he sees as a criminal act in progress He kept doing things without letting himself think about them.