Roadwork - Stephen King
ROADWORK
Stephen King
What happens when one good-and-angry man fights back is murder - and then some ...
Prologue
I don't know why. You don't know why. Most likely God don't know why, either. It's just Government business, that's all.
-Man-in-the-street interview concerning
Viet Nam, circa 1967
But Viet Nam was over and the country was getting on.
On this hot August afternoon in 1972, the WHLM Newsmobile was parked near Westgate at the end of the Route 784 expressway. There ...