As Desperation worked with classic "Stephen King" motifs to tell its story, so The Regulators updates and twists themes prevalent in "Richard Bachman" novels. Stephen King's impetus for reviving the Bachman pseudonym first reveals itself here. An unearthly red van with a radar dish on the top pulls onto the street, reveals its armaments, and begins shooting the paperboy is only the first to die. Within the first twenty pages, though, the quiet is shattered. The idyll of Poplar Street in Wentworth, Ohio reads almost poetically, these initial passages reminiscent of King's poem, "Brooklyn August" ( Nightmares & Dreamscapes). The Regulators opens with a cozy, comfortable depiction of a suburban summer's day, told in the immediacy of present tense. It looks like a house where lunatics live
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