ccopeland28 's review for:

Blaze by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

4.0

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This is a Stephen King trunk book - a book he wrote in his Richard Bachman days and stored it away for 30 years before dusting it off, editing and revising it and then releasing it. SK says in the introduction that this is a bit reminiscent of Of Mice and Men and it most certainly is. It also reminded me of the movie Savannah Smiles, although it has been over 30 years since I've seen that movie, as I recall the two bumbling kidnappers of Savannah end up caring about her. So is the case in Blaze. Blaze is a Goliath, but he isn't very smart due to the enormous dent in his forehead that was caused when his father pushed him down the stairs as a child. Blaze is set to carry out the big heist that he and his cohort, George planned - kidnapping the child of a rich family. The problem is that in between George planning it and it actually being carried out George died. So now it is up to Blaze to pull it off on his own.