Part of the Richard Bachman Series
Roadwork
274 Pages
Published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
Barton George Dawes is a man slowly losing everything: his job, his home, his sense of purpose. When a new highway project threatens to demolish his house, he refuses to move, even as the world around him does. What begins as civil resistance soon descends into obsession, isolation, and violence.
Roadwork is King at his most psychologically raw. There are no monsters here except grief, stagnation, and the slow suffocation of a man caught between past and progress. Itâs about what happens when the future comes for you, and you decide to dig in and burn the bridge behind you.
Bleak, internal, and unflinching, this is one of Kingâs most underrated novels, a quiet spiral into emotional collapse.