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From a Buick 8

A Novel

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An edition of From a Buick 8 (2002)

From a Buick 8

A Novel

(2)
  • 3.62 ·
  • 16 Ratings
  • 76 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 38 Have read

The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was...wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous -- and that it would be better if John Q. Public never found out about it.

Curt's avid curiosity taking the lead, they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still life painting that breathes -- inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from.

In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his 18-year-old boy Ned starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it's the boy's way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well....

From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.

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Scribner
Language
English
Pages
356

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From a Buick 8: A Novel
Nov 14, 2017, Gallery Books
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Buick 8: Un Coche Perverso
Año 2011, Debolsillo
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From a Buick 8
2011, Hodder
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Roadmaster: roman
2004-02, Albin Michel
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Buick 8
2003, Prószyński i S-ka
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From a Buick 8
2003-12, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - First Pocket Books Printing (1)
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From a Buick 8
2003, Charnwood
Hardcover in English - Large Print Edition; 1st Charnwood Edition
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From a Buick 8
2002, Hodder & Stoughton
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From A Buick 8
2002, Simon & Schuster Audio
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2002, Scribner
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New York, USA

Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction
Other Titles
From a Buick Eight
Copyright Date
2002

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3561.I483 F76 2002, PS3561.I483F76 2002, PZ4.K5227 Fro 2002

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
356p.
Number of pages
356

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23246642M
ISBN 10
0743211375
ISBN 13
9780743211376
LCCN
2001055118
OCLC/WorldCat
473289335, 48397452
Alibris ID
9780743211376
Google
y1sI3oGggQUC
Paperback Swap
0743211375
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0743211375
Library Thing
24202
Goodreads
22076

Work Description

Una novela sobre una fascinación enfermiza y peligrosa. Una novela de verdadero terror. Pensilvania, 1979. Llega un extraño a una gasolinera para repostar. Conduce un Buick modelo 1954 pero en perfecto estado. El conductor va al baño y nunca reaparece. La policía se hace cargo del coche, que ahora no funciona, y lo guarda en una nave detrás de la comisaría. Y aquí empieza una historia escalofriante, la historia de un coche con su propia vida, perversa y maliciosa. Los agentes siguen su trabajo, pero el coche de vez en cuando interviene: a veces sus radios y teléfonos no funcionan. A veces el coche empieza a moverse, a producir relámpagos y el maletero se abre para escupir objetos indescriptibles. Hasta parece que es responsable de varias muertes, entre ellas la del agente Wilcox. En el otoño de 2001 el hijo del fallecido agente empieza a trabajar en la comisaría y decide que ha de saber la verdad del Buick 8.

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Curt Wilcox's boy came around the barracks a lot the year after his father died, I mean a lot, but nobody ever told him get out the way or asked him what in hail he was doing there again.
added by Lisa. "first sentence"

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