Thinner Author:Richard Bachman ; Stephen King Billy Halleck, good husband, loving father, 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 he's also fifty pounds overweight and as his doctor keeps remeinding him, he's thirty-six years old -- edging into hea... more »rt attack country.« less