Svědectví – King Stephen (2020)

A good way to end the world: a faulty nanosecond operation in a Department of Defense laboratory and millions of contacts mean a path to chain death. And the day after: a bare world, stripped of order and 99% depopulated: a world where a handful of survivors panic as they choose sides to stand on or are chosen by. A world where the worst nightmares of evil are embodied by a man with a fateful smile and unspeakable power: the dark Randall Flagg. Stephen King's raw apocalyptic novel The Stand is ranked among the author's best works. It explores the oft-told theme of the struggle against a catastrophic epidemic of an incurable contagious disease, which here takes the form of a 'superflu' developed in military laboratories. However, the experiment spirals out of control, and the infection wipes out nearly all of humanity. A handful of survivors split into two groups – some turn to the kind Mother Abigail, who has called to them in dreams, while others head into the arms of the Dark Man. King's novel culminates in a classic battle between Good and Evil, where humans remain mere pawns on the chessboard of a game for the world. In the book, King plays with his favorite theme of predestination, which he also explored in other novels like The Dead Zone, It, or...