Paperback. Pub Date :2012-12-20 Pages: 448 Language: English Publisher: Hodder Paperback Wentworth. Ohio: a small friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets in the EZ shop and writer Johnny Marinville is the only resident who minds his own business.On Poplar Street. apart from the impending storm. its just a normal summers day - with Frisbees flying. lawn mowers humming and barbeques grilling. As the paperboy makes his round. he is unaware of the chrome red van idling up the hill ... Soon the residents will be caught up in a game of wills as the regulators arrive in force to face a child whose powers of expression are just awakening.If you like THE REGULATORS. dont miss DESPERATION. written as an unidentical pair.