This woman, Abagail Freemantle (known as "Mother Abagail"), becomes the spiritual leader of this group of survivors, directing them to Boulder, Colorado. They are drawn together by both circumstances and their shared dreams of a 108-year-old black woman from Hemingford Home, Nebraska, a place they see as a refuge and a representation of good in the struggle of good versus evil. Larry Underwood, a disillusioned pop musician from New York City Rita Blakemoor, a rich middle-aged woman also from New York City Nadine Cross, a grade-school teacher with a dark secret from South Barnstead, New Hampshire Leo Rockway, a traumatized, temporarily feral boy from Epsom, New Hampshire Lucy Swann, a twenty-five year old former housewife and mother from Enfield, New Hampshire Judge Farris, a seventy-year-old retired judge from Peoria, Illinois Nick Andros, an insightful deaf-mute drifter originally from (fictional) Caslin, Nebraska Tom Cullen, a kind-hearted mentally challenged man from May, Oklahoma Ralph Brentner, a jolly, easy-going farmer, also from Oklahoma Dick Ellis, a former veterinarian in his early 50s Gina McCone, a little girl Olivia Walker, a sympathetic older woman June Brinkmeyer, a redhead woman in her mid-20s Stuart Redman, a factory worker from the fictional tiny town of Arnette, Texas Frances Goldsmith, a pregnant college student from Ogunquit, Maine Harold Lauder, an overweight high school outcast, also from Ogunquit Glen Bateman, a quick-witted, pessimistic sociology professor from Woodsville, New Hampshire Kojak (formerly "Big Steve") an Irish Setter adopted by Glen, and one of very few dogs immune to the plague Perion McCarthy and Mark Braddock, two lovers who are already a couple when they meet Stu's group Dayna Jurgens, a hard-headed and determined woman from Xenia, Ohio Susan Stern, a former student from Kent State University Patty Kroger, a beautiful young girl in her teen years Intertwining cross-country odysseys are undertaken by a small number of survivors, including: The expanded edition opens with a prologue titled "The Circle Opens" that offers greater detail into the circumstances surrounding the development of the virus and the security breach that allowed its escape from the secret laboratory compound where it was created. The human toll is also dealt with, as the few survivors must care for their families and friends, dealing with confusion and grief as their loved ones succumb to the flu. Widespread violence, protest, paranoia, the failure of martial law to contain the outbreak, and eventually the death of virtually the entire population. King outlines the total breakdown and destruction of society through The epidemic leads directly to the death of an estimated 99.4% of the world's human population. The novel's first part takes place over nineteen days, with the escape and spread of a human-made biological weapon, a superflu virus known formally as "Project Blue" but most commonly as " Captain Trips" (among other colloquialisms). The survivors split into two factions, one led by Flagg, and one led by Mother Abigail, and prepare for the final stand between good and evil. They all dream about two opposing figures: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man, and Mother Abagail, who is receiving visions from God. The 0.6% who survive struggle to find their bearings and rebuild civilization in the aftermath of the plague. A deadly virus called " Captain Trips", engineered as an advanced biological weapon by the government, is accidentally released across America and the world, causing 99.4% of the entire world's population to die.
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