The Waiting by Black, Campbell - 1986

McGraw Hill Book Company. As New in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. The hard cover book with dust jacket is in like new condition. There is a name inked inside the cover. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. Pages are rough cut on middle page ends. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 278 pages; The setting is in California, The town of Carnarvon is seemingly peaceful little town, a renowned tourist attraction outside of San Francisco, but the seemly peaceful but a dark secret haunts the inhabitants : Every few years a healthy child takes ill with a strange horrifying disease for which modern medicine can find no cure. Every few years. It was the perfect summer home for Max and Louise and their 12-year-old son. The Californian pine forest was peaceful and isolated, and the old couple who lived nearby just loved to entertain young Denny. Louise soon realised, however, that something evil was taking over her son. Will combine shipping on more than one book. .