Jamie Morton learns at an early age to know a Methodist preacher who brings the children and youth in the area by electronic and electrical gadgets back to church work - to his family in a terrible car accident is killed and he renounces in the pulpit of the organized religion , He must leave the area shortly afterwards and met Jamie from time to time in various costumes - fairground attraction, faith healers and finally inquiring hermit.
Narrator Jamie Morton's life story will be given to so much space that his encounters with the Reverend appearing attached more or less after the events in his hometown. Had evaporated this, then you would have had an interesting and stringent amendment - or even a slightly longer short story. Thus, the narrative draws - even though it is one of Kings shorter novels - unnecessarily every now and has in the end even a rough logic error.
The narrative voice itself is pleasant, as one would expect of King, but the story is really nothing special - more so below average.
