The story is about Jamie, a 6-year-old boy and a young clergyman Reverend Charles Jacobs and the impact that the Reverend has on Jamie's life when the Reverend cures Jamie's brother by experimenting with electrical current so that the older boy regain his voice after he was hit by a ski pole. Then tragedy happens when the Rev's family is killed and after the Reverend gives an angry and grief stricken sermon and he is fired and vanishes. Years go by, Jamie falls in teenage love, plays in dozens of rock bands and then gets hooked on heroin and their paths cross again when Reverend Jacobs now going by Dan Jacobs cures Jamie of his heroin addiction. Jamie has some strange and dark side effects after that. Years later, the Reverend is a tent show preacher who still is curing people and Jamie decides he must stop the Reverend when Jamie finds out that some of the Reverend's other miracle cures seem to be experiencing strange and dark side effects too.
The story starts out slow because King is trying to establish the relationship that the two have. It starts to pick up more steam during Jamie's teen and adult years. There is only a few glimpses of the early King's dark and twisted world up until the closer towards the end. It was a good story and I read it in two days! Definitely worth it!
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