Soitti kelloja, sillä luin tuon novellikokoelman (Painajaisia ja unikuvia 1: Yksinäinen sormi) vastikään (King-fanina jo toiseen kertaan.) Kyseinen novelli on Dolanin Cadillac (Dolan’s Cadillac). Asfalttihommat liittyvät melko kaukaa haettuun kostojuoneen hänen vaimonsa tappanutta mafiapomoa kohtaan… Novelli ei olekaan varsinaisesti kauhua, enemmän jännitystä. Kinghän kirjoittaa myös muutamaa muuta genreä toisinaan, erityisesti novelleissa, toki joissakin romaaneissa myös.
Juoni tiivistettynä; seuraa spoilereita: The narrator, known only by his surname, Robinson, is a schoolteacher who lives in Las Vegas. He has become a widower after Dolan, a wealthy crime-boss, had his wife murdered with a car bomb in order to prevent her from testifying against him. The murder remains unsolved, and Robinson, unskilled in the arts of revenge, has no recourse. Over a seven-year period, however, Robinson—mentally haunted by his wife’s voice—devises a scheme of retaliation.
Discovering that Dolan regularly takes the same route along State Route 71 when traveling to Los Angeles while in his Cadillac, Robinson decides to trick Dolan into missing a detour, which leads the Cadillac to crash into a ditch in which he’ll be buried alive; while the Cadillac is armored against most conventional forms of attack, he realized he can use that against Dolan. He takes on an arduous summer job with a road paving crew so that he can learn to operate the heavy equipment needed to excavate an oblong ditch just long and deep enough to contain the car, but not so wide as to allow escape through its doors.