From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post). Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have … “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories, and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.
When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades ago by a madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed “the Fishman,” and Jack’s buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help the inexperienced force find him. But are these new killings merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack’s inexplicable waking dreams–if that is what they are–of robins’ eggs and red feathers? It’s almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As this cryptic message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted tract of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.more
Police detective, Fin Macleod, returns to the remote Scottish Island of Lewis to check out a brutal murder with the same MO as an unsolved murder he’d previously investigated in Edinburgh. Having grown up on the island, he soon becomes reacquainted with old friends and adversaries and, whilst trying to help solve the latest murder, he’s soon …
I enjoyed this more than The Talisman! Kept me turning pages to see what happened next. Hope there’s a “Jack Sawyer 3” in the works!
Twenty years after the events of The Talisman, Jack is a retired LA detective living in the small town of Tamarack, Wisconsin. Jack has buried the memories of his journey through the Territories, but he will have to remember in order to solve the murders that are plaguing his small town.
This is a reread for me, but it was fun to read it …
King and Straub write as one. second book in series and couldn’t put these down. would love to se more from these 2 together. always been a King fan and Straub ties seemlessly together and creates a new and great auther. Thank you both these were great.
Second fantastic book in proposed trilogy
I re-read the first book in this trilogy THE TALISMAN right before ‘re-reading this book. I was amazed just how much I didn’t remember about either book. I first read this book when it first came out in 2001, years after THE TALISMAN. I did read that authors King and Straub might be working on book three, …
Awesome read !
Might be better the The Talisman.
This is one of my all time favorite books!!!! It’s the best!!!
As a long-time fan of The Talisman, how could I pass up a sequel after years of wondering: What happened to Jack?
Coming back to find Jack Sawyer grown, but for the most part alone in the world was like a bittersweet reunion.
He’s had success in life, and is certainly not without means, and has decided to retire to a quiet life in the …
Lived it
Not as good as the Talisman, but a great conclusion to it.
Most excellent
I love this sequel to Talisman. Great book!
Part of the Dark Tower Series