The Colorado Kid, Stephen King.  A slim little novella, The Colorado Kid is King playing artsy with the hard-boiled genre.  Possessed of an ending that'll polarize readers, I still have mixed feelings about this one.  King lays out his cards in the afterward (which spoils the ending, so read it yourself), and I think the effort successful for his aims, though I have to wonder if this was the right medium for such an experiment.


Read August 2006