The rumors that Mr. King has retired have been greatly exaggerated. This is basic light and fluffy King with a lot of crowd-pleasing elements: an overabundance of disgusting violence, mindless zombies, the end of the world, a gang of survivors journeying toward some supersized climax. The twist is that this time the end of the world occurs as a result of a computer virus in the cell phone network that rewires and reboots the brains of anyone who hears it (don’t think about that too much). It’s a lot of fun from start to finish, though, even if there’s nothing particularly groundbreaking here. King almost - but not quite - phoned it in (ha ha).

The technology is out there. One pulse. One tone. One key.

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It’s freaky and the fact that it could happen makes you shiver in your dreams.