The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants to be an ordinary kid. But in Stephen King's engrossing foray into pulp fiction, Jamie can see what no one else can see, and learn what no one else can learn. His mom urges him to keep his strange ability secret, and the cost of using it is higher than Jamie can imagine—as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.

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