'Regulators' and 'Blaze'

 'Regulators', published in 1996

Wentworth, Ohio - a typical American city, calm and dreamy, where everyone knows one another and each day is like the previous one. One afternoon the friendly atmosphere is distorted by the arrival of a van from which someone starts shooting. Mysterious psychopaths drive across the street of the community several times on their murderous route. The survivors hide at homes, waiting for rescue. Several hours later the police and ambulances still fail to show up, and the Poplar street seems to be entirely separated from the world. Can an autistic boy, his aunt and an aging writer face the Regulators and save Wentworth?

In 2006, during a press conference in London, King declared that he had found another novel by Bachman, entitled 'Blaze'. It was published on 12 June 2007 in Great Britain and in the USA. The typescript had been found at Maine University. King had changed the content of the book from 1973, adjusting it to contemporary world. 

A gloomy criminal novel which surprises with humor and melancholy. Over 2 meters tall and weighing 130 kg Clay Blaisdell is one not very bright bastard. His problems with thinking started in early childhood, when he was thrown down the stairs by his father. As a teenager, Blaze escapes from a child care home and meets George, who introduces him into hundreds of frauds and one master plan: kidnapping a child of rich parents. There is only one problem: George dies. But does he for sure? How then is he able to still assist his partner in completing his mad plan? Blaze is on the run in an incredible blizzard, and the police is right behind him. He holds the child hostage, and the crime of the century turns into a race against time in the white hell of the woods of Maine...