The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's memorable story Apt Pupil - published in his 1982
story collection Different Seasons and made into a movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro
- is now available as a standalone publication. You must know that your fate and my own are
inextricably intertwined Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades good family a paper
route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher Mr. Dussander and to learn all
about Dussander's dark and deadly past . . . a decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to
this day. Yet Todd doesn't want to turn his teacher in. Todd wants to know more. Much more.
He is about to face his fears and learn the real meaning of power - and the seductive lure of
evil. A classic story from Stephen King Apt Pupil reveals layers upon layers of deception
and horror as the boy and old man hold each other in a mutual death grip. Each knows something
the other wants kept secret.
