Beware the Wheel of Fortune.... Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into . . . the dead zone. Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a trip into . . . the dead zone. John Smith, who awakened from a seemingly interminable coma with an accursed power: the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in ... the dead zone. "Powerful tension holds the reader to the story like a pin to a magnet." —The Houston Post