Audio Book Description:
A fellow name Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter,then turned themachine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie.Bachman died in 1985, but in late 2006 King found the originaltypescript of Blaze among hispapers at the Universityof Maine`s Fogler Library anddecided that with a little revision it ought to be published. Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, jr.-of the crimes committed againsthim and the crimes he commits, includinghis last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions.Blaze has been a slow thinkersince childhood, when hisfather threw him down the stairs-and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blazehooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers. But the George is killed, and Blaze though haunted by his partner,is on his own.