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The Tommyknockers

by Stephen King · 1987

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ISBN 10: 0451156609

ISBN13: 9780451156600

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Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi accidentally stumbled across.

It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell. It was more like a diabolical takeover...an invasion of body and soul—and mind....

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Themes
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Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisMaineMaineMore like thisLess of thisNew EnglandNew EnglandMore like thisLess of this
Mood
creepycreepyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 747 pages

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