On August 21st, Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan are releasing an e-book that takes readers to the ballpark once again in a story called A Face In The Crowd. This is the same writing team that brought you the best selling story, Faithful about the 2004 Red Sox Championship season.
In this new story, Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier…