In 1991, when he was driving his daughter's car cross-country, Stephen King first came up with the idea for the book “Desperation” as he passed through Ruth, Nevada, a small town with seemingly no inhabitants.
U.S. Route 50 is a transcontinental highway in the United States; the Nevada portion crosses the center of the state and is named "The Loneliest Road in America.” The name originates from large desolate areas with few or no signs of civilization. US 50 turns south from Interstate 80 after leaving Utah and looks like a shortcut to Lake Tahoe on the map.
Ruth is a small town in White Pine County, Nevada, along the route in the middle of the state. In 2010 it had a population of 440. Ruth was built as a company town for the adjacent Robinson Mine, a large open-pit copper mine, which was still in operation as of 2013.
In King’s story of Desperation, traffic and law and order are regulated by Collie Entragian, a giant uniformed madman who considers himself the only law west of the Pecos. God forbid you should be missing a license plate or find yourself with a flat tire.
There's something very wrong in this town, and Entragian is only the surface of it. The secrets in Desperation's landscape and the evil that infects the city are both excellent and terrifying.
Young David Carver seems to know what is wrong and why being in tune with the good that wants to fight the evil. Things don’t go well for David or any of those trapped in the town., David's father is attacked by a demonic eagle and murdered in front of him after watching his mother and father die. Just another, I can’t put it down, story by Stephen King.
