He also begins expanding the ranks of the Chester's Mill Police with questionable candidates, including his son, Junior Rennie, and his friends. Big Jim exerts a significant influence on Chester's Mill and seizes the opportunity to use the barrier as part of a power play to take over the town.īig Jim appoints one of his cronies, the incompetent Peter Randolph, as the new police chief. This removes the last significant opposition to James 'Big Jim' Rennie, used car salesman and the town's Second Selectman. Police Chief Howard 'Duke' Perkins is killed instantly when his pacemaker explodes when he gets too close to the Dome. The immediate appearance of the barrier causes a number of injuries and fatalities and traps former Army Captain Dale 'Barbie' Barbara-who is trying to leave Chester's Mill because of a local dispute-inside the town.

on October 21, the small Maine town of Chester's Mill is abruptly and gruesomely separated from the outside world by an invisible, semipermeable barrier of unknown origin. The novel focuses on a small Maine town, and tells an intricate, multi-character, alternating perspective story of how the town's inhabitants contend with the calamity of being suddenly cut off from the outside world by an impassable, invisible glass dome-like barrier that seemingly falls out of the sky, transforming the community into a domed city.Īt 11:45 a.m. Under the Dome is the 58th book published by Stephen King, and it is his 48th novel.

Under the Dome is a 2009 science fiction novel by the American author, Stephen King.

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