Outsider
Audiobook
Outsider
All the evidence speaks clearly. And they're all lying.
The quiet town of Flint City is shaken by the brutal murder of an 11-year-old boy. Eyewitnesses, fingerprints and DNA tests all point in one direction - to popular teacher, baseball coach and model father Terry Maitland. Local detective Ralph Anderson has busted a lot of bad guys, but this one is especially gruesome because the guy who raped and cut Frankie Peterson also trained his son. He could have closed the case quickly - if the defendant hadn't had a bulletproof alibi. CCTV footage captured him in a city hundreds of miles away at the time of the crime. How can one man be in two places at the same time? Anderson turns to private eye Holly Gibney, who can see patterns and connections where logic fails. She alerts him to a similar mysterious case of the murder of two girls. The investigation turns into a chilling horror in which forensic science clashes with an ancient evil. Anderson and Gibney must stop the monster before another child dies.
Stephen King was inspired by the legend of a monster called El Cuco, who kidnaps disobedient children. HBO's series adaptation of the novel Max (2020) was warmly received by audiences and critics alike.
They wrote about the book:
The Outsider gives King fans exactly what they want, while bringing new ideas to the table.
- The Guardian
Twists and surprises make the book a fantastic read...
- The Washington Post
The king of horror delivers a gripping tale, fleshing out our phobias and the dark depths of the supernatural (...) as always, he is at his best when he paints a Brueghel-esque portrait of an ordinary life gone wrong...
- Kirkus Reviews
Stephen King
(* 1947) American writer who became a worldwide phenomenon in the horror, thriller, science fiction and fantasy genres. In 1970, he graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a degree in English and Creative Writing, and while still a student began to make a name for himself as a short story writer. When he didn't get a teaching job after graduation, he worked in a laundry and supplemented his income by writing for men's magazines. His dizzying and prolific career began in 1974 with the novel Carrie (no. 1992), a story about a teenage girl with telekinetic powers that soon became a bestseller and opened the door to Hollywood (1976, dir. Brian De Palma). Since then, King has written dozens of other books that have sold more than 350 million copies worldwide and won him many prestigious awards, including The Bram Stoker Award (i.e. Oscar of horror) and The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (i.e. the most prestigious American award in the genre of detective, thriller and crime literature). Many of King's works have been adapted into films by exceptional filmmakers. Among the most famous are Enlightenment (1980, dir. Stanley Kubrick), Misery (1990, dir. Rob Reiner), The Shawshank Redemption (1994, dir. Frank Darabont), The Green Mile (1999, dir. Frank Darabont) and Doctor Sleep (2019, dir. Mike Flanagan). The trilogy about retired detective Bill Hodges (Mr. Mercedes, Law Finder, End of Watch, 2014-2016) inspired the successful series Mr. Mercedes (2017). The 2020 series adaptation of the novel Outsider (2018) has also been warmly received by audiences and critics alike.
