Basic set up: obnoxious over-weight lawyer gets off light for a hit and run accident. Unfortunately, the victim’s father, a gypsy man as hockey as you’d expect, puts a curse on our hero that will cause him to lose around three pounds a day in weight until he dies.
Simple yet wholly satisfying.
King (writing under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman) runs with the simple premise and pens a yarn that never outstays its welcome. At a mere 340 pages, it’s lean and to the point and unlike the last King book I read (the rubbish Insomnia), it doesn’t delve into pretentious waffle. King knows the idea is hockey and plays it as such whilst delivering great moments of nastiness and a wonderfully bleak ending.
Consider it a B-picture to the genuine masterpieces of King’s work.
4/5
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