King, Stephen Desperation / Stephen King - 690 pages Several cross-country travelers--including a writer, a family on vacation, and a professor and his wife--end up in the little mining town of Desperation, where a crazy policeman and evil forces compel them to fight for their lives. ISBN: 0670868361 Subjects--Topical Terms: Traffic police--Fiction Index Terms--Genre/Form: Psychological fiction Dewey Class. No.: Fic