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“KING, STRAUB, AND NOW ROBERT McCAMMON…”
– Los Angeles Times

AN EPIC JOURNEY OF TERROR ACROSS A LAND SEETHING WITH UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS. AMERICA! – HAUNTED BY AN EVIL WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME.

An ancient evil roams the blasted, nightmare country, an evil as old as time. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, the Man of Many Faces, gathering under his power the forces of human greed and madness. He is seeking to destroy a child, the one called Swan.

From Robert R. McCammon, one of the living masters of horror, comes a stunning tale of sheer fright and power where the end of the world is just the beginning of mankind’s ultimate struggle.

“A CHILLING VISION THAT WILL KEEP YOU TURNING THE PAGES TO THE SHOCKING END.” – John Saul




On the edge of a barren Kansas landscape, a man called Black Frankenstein hears the cry… “PROTECT THE CHILD…”

In the wasteland of New York City, a bag lady clutches a strange bejeweled ring and feels magic coursing through her…

Within an Idaho mountain, a survivalist compound lies in ruins, and a young boy learns how to kill…

In a wasteland born of nuclear rage, in a world of mutant animals and marauding armies, the last people on earth are now the first. Three bands of survivors journey toward destiny—drawn into the final struggle between annihilation and life!

THEY HAVE SURVIVED
THE UNSURVIVABLE.
NOW THE ULTIMATE TERROR BEGINS.





PUBLISHED BY POCKET BOOKS NEW YORK


For Sally, whose inside face is as beautiful as the one outside. We survived the comet!
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This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

The author is grateful for permission to quote from “The Waste Land” from Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; © 1963, 1964 by T. S. Eliot. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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Copyright © 1987 by The McCammon Corporation
Cover artwork copyright © 1987 Rowena Morrill

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