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Mile 81 (Kindle Single) by Stephen King [King, Stephen] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Mile 81 (Kindle Single) about?

With the heart of Stand By Me and the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81 is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs... At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It's a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who's supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play "paratroopers over the side." Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out. Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn't been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver's door opens but nobody gets out. Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls "the ultimate insurance manual,

Who reads Mile 81 (Kindle Single)?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Stephen King [King, Stephen]
Publisher
Scribner
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781250623638
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction
Rating
3.62 / 5 (14,464 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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