King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful stand-alone novel that is also the final
chapter in the Gwendy trilogy. When Gwendy Peterson was twelve a stranger named Richard Farris
gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins but it was
dangerous. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction. Years
later the button box re-entered Gwendy's life. A successful novelist and a rising political
star she was once more forced to deal with the temptations that the box represented - an
amazing sense of wellbeing balanced by a terrifyingly dark urge towards disaster. With the
passing of time the box has grown ever stronger and evil forces are striving to possess it.
Once again it is up to Gwendy Peterson now a United States Senator battling the early
symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide
something from such powerful entities? Gwendy's Final Task is a wildly suspenseful and at the
same time deeply moving novel in which 'horror giants' (Publishers Weekly) Stephen King and
Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to
the MF-1 space station where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And
maybe all worlds.
