In a small town in New England, in the early 1960s, a shadow falls over a little boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up and sees an impressive man, the new minister. Along with his beautiful wife, the charismatic Reverend Charles Jacobs will become an object of worship for his parishioners. Until the moment tragedy strikes...

Many years later, when he meets Jacobs again, Jamie is now a wandering guitarist, addicted to heroin, broke, and desperate at thirty-five. But Jacobs is no longer the same man either. Their old bond turns into a pact more terrible than anything the devil himself could devise—and Jamie discovers that the word "revival" can have multiple meanings.

A rich, deeply terrifying novel, with perhaps the most horrifying ending King has ever written, about addiction, religion, music, and what might be waiting for us on the other side. A masterpiece, in the grand tradition of American literature from Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville.