Desperation

A detailed Summary of Desperation

Mary and Peter Jackson were driving down highway 50 in the middle of Nevada when Collie Entragian, the Desperation police officer, pulled them over for having a missing rear license plate. He told Peter that he could take the front license plate off and put it on the back and they should be ok. Peter went to the trunk of the car to get a tool kit under the spare tire. When he lifted up the tire to get the tools, Entragian and Peter found a bag of marijuana. Entragian started to get violent and he beat up Peter. It wasn't too bad, though. He arrested Peter and Mary and took them to the jail in Desperation. When the got the municipal building, Entragian shot Peter and killed him. He put Mary in the holding cells.

Entragian's next victims were the Carver's. They lived in Ohio and were going on vacation to Lake Tahoe. They had gotten four flat tires on the RV that they were driving. Entragian saw that they were having trouble and he stopped to help them. He told them that there was a dangerous man on the loose and the reason that they had four flat tires because they ran over a spike strip that was supposed to stop the man. Collie took the Carvers, Ralph, Ellen, David, and Kirsten, to the municipal building. When they got there,

Entragian pushed Kirsten down the stairs and killed her. He put the rest of them in the holding cells.

The others headed back to Austin to call the state police. Steve and Cynthia drove Mary to where her car was parked on Highway 50. Mary took David with her. They followed Steve and Cynthia into Austin.

While everyone was still locked up, Steve and Cynthia had arrived in Desperation. They stopped at a gas station. There, they picked up Audrey Wilder, the only other living person in Desperation. Entragian had killed the rest of them. Audrey was hiding out in an old laundry mat next to the gas station and she saw them pull up. She went over to them to get help. This is when David had called Steve. Steve discovered that everyone at the gas station was dead. Audrey explained to them that Collie had gone mad and killed every living person human in Desperation, but she had gotten away. After she was done explaining, they headed to the American West to meet up with the others.

The all went into the opening of the cave. The eagle was in there and it had attacked Ralph and killed him. Johnny was going to be the one to close up the pit. In turn, he would have to give his life because the explosives had to be set off by hand. Steve grabbed David and they ran out of the pit. Johnny ran in farther and set off the explosives. He has successfully closed up the cane in the China Pit, and he had taken his own life to do it.

Now, David said they had to go get Mary. Ellen had taken Mary and locked her in a storage building. Ellen, still possessed by Tak, had gone to the ini in the China Pit. Mary had found a way out of the storage building and was running up out of the pit when Ellen started chasing after her. Tak needed Mary's body because Ellen's was falling apart. In the meantime, the others had come to rescue her. She could see the headlights of the Ryder truck they were driving. Ellen got right up behind Mary. She grabbed for her hair, but it was too slippery because of sweat and Ellen's hand slipped right through it. Then, Ellen collapsed. She was dead. Tak's spirit then went inside and eagle and flew away to the China Pit. Mary and the others finally got back together. Mary told them what all had happened to her. Now it was time to go down into to China Pit and close it up for good.

In the meantime, Steve was driving along and he saw this girl on the side of the road so he stopped to see if she needed a ride. He picked her up. Her name was Cynthia Smith. As they were talking, Steve's cell phone rang. It was Johnny. All he could make out was ouble...help...RV...Highway 50. He knew Johnny had to be in trouble. So they took off down Highway 50 to find him. The spotted the RV that Johnny was talking about so they knew he had to be close. The got out and walked around. Steve spotted something in the sand and

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Approximate Word count = 1905
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)

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