The Dead Zone

Johnny Smith is a young teacher whose life changes after a sequence of accidents leaves him with a strange sensitivity to people and events. A promising romance, a county-fair outing, and a devastating crash set the story in motion, then disappear into years lost to coma and recovery.

When Johnny wakes, the world has moved on without him. He must rebuild his life while discovering that contact with people or objects can reveal flashes of their past, present, or future, turning his recovery into a burden as much as a power. That ability draws him into problems that range from personal crises to criminal danger.

As Johnny’s visions grow more serious, he becomes entangled with a serial-killer investigation and with a rising politician whose future seems catastrophic. The story builds toward a difficult moral decision about whether knowing the future gives him the right to try to change it, and what it would cost to act.