Thinner Author:Stephen King "Richard Bachman" Billy Halleck lives in Connecticut and practices law in New York City. He is both beneficiary and victim of the American Good Life: he has an expensive home, a nice family, and a rewarding job...but his also 50 pounds overweight, and as his doctor keeps reminding him, he is 36 years old - edging into heart attach country. Then Billy sideswipe... more »s an old Gypsy woman as she is crossing the street in their quiet little southern Connecticut town of Fairview, and everything in his pleasant, upwardly mobile life changes. He is exonerated in the local court by a friendly judge and sheriff...but a blacker, worse judgment has been passed on him, nevertheless. Billy begins losing weight. He is pleased at first, then worried, and finally terrified. He can't stop it. He eats and eats but the weight flies off. Thinner is a novel of one man's quest to find the source of his nightmare and to reverse it before he becomes...nothing at all.« less