Regulators

by Stephen King

Stephen King has brought back his pseudonym Richard Bachman, originally kiboshed when a King fan discovered Bachman's true identity; Bachman's novel concerns the small town of Wentworth, which is invaded by five vans, the first of which perpetrates a drive-by shooting that upsets the natural order of things and begins the story. The novel is a companion piece to "Desperation", which is written under the name Stephen King and which involves many of the same characters in the same sort of setting, but exhibits an entirely different flavor than "The Regulators". The books can be read separately, in either order, and each can stand on its own as a fully-realized work.

Editions of Regulators

ISBN 9780525941903	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1996	Price $1.00	Very Good
ISBN 9780140863222	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1996	Price $1.13	As new condition.
ISBN 9780670872817	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Penguin USA	Date 1996	Price $1.00	Used, Very Good
ISBN 9780613096201	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 1999	Price $13.79	Good
ISBN 9780786208449	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Thorndike Pr	Date 1996	Price $1.00	Used, Very Good
ISBN 9780786208456	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Thorndike Pr	Date 1997	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9780788191794	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Diane Pub Co	Date 1996	Price $3.46	Fine

Media Reviews

"Those who have read the cynical but exciting Bachman books (e.g., 'Thinner', 1985) know that King's stories take on a misanthropic edge when he dons his nom de plume, and 'The Regulators' is no different....Bachman gleefully kills off his most sympathetic characters in a plot that's reminiscent of an old Western crossed with a Saturday-morning cartoon. Although the action is fierce and Bachman's imagination proves boundless, the hopelessness of his characters' predicament makes it a bleak and tiresome reading experience."

First Line

"Summer's here. Not just summer, either, not this year, but the apotheosis of summer, the avatar of summer, high green perfect central Ohio summer dead-smash in the middle of July, white sun glaring out of that fabled faded Levi's sky, the sound of kids hollering back and forth through the Bear Street Woods at the top of the hill, the tink! of Little League bats from the ballfield on the other side of the woods, the sound of power-mowers, the sound of muscle cars out on Highway 19..."

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