An epic war between good and evil‎,‎ a gory‎,‎ glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper‎-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon‎.‎ King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance‎,‎ the boy at the heart of The Shining‎,‎ after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel‎.‎ The instantly riveting DOCTOR SLEEP picks up the story of the now middle‎-aged Dan‎,‎ working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire‎,‎ and the very special twelve‎-year old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals‎.‎ On highways across America‎,‎ a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance‎.‎ They look harmless ‎- mostly old‎,‎ lots of polyester‎,‎ and married to their RVs‎.‎ But as Dan Torrance knows‎,‎ and tween Abra Stone learns‎,‎ The True Knot are quasi‎-immortal‎,‎ living off the ‎'‎steam‎'‎ that children with the ‎'‎shining‎'‎ produce when they are slowly tortured to death‎.‎ Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year‎,‎ Dan has been drifting for decades‎,‎ desperate to shed his father‎'‎s legacy of despair‎,‎ alcoholism‎,‎ and violence‎.‎ Finally‎,‎ he settles in a New Hampshire town‎,‎ an AA community that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant ‎'‎shining‎'‎ power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying‎.‎ Aided by a prescient cat‎,‎ he becomes ‎'‎Doctor Sleep‎.‎‎'‎ Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone‎,‎ and it is her spectacular gift‎,‎ the brightest shining ever seen‎,‎ that reignites Dan‎'‎s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra‎'‎s soul and survival ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎