Fletcher, a former reporter from The New York Times, has been captured by members of a South American dictatorship. Fletcher realizes that his captors, despite their promises to the contrary, will not let him leave the room alive. During ...See moreFletcher, a former reporter from The New York Times, has been captured by members of a South American dictatorship. Fletcher realizes that his captors, despite their promises to the contrary, will not let him leave the room alive. During the course of his interrogation, Fletcher manages to keep calm and hatches a desperate plan to escape, which, to his surprise, actually works. He fakes an epileptic seizure and, in the captors' struggle to save him, steals a gun. After killing three of his captors and maiming one, he escapes the Deathroom. Fletcher, having no way of knowing if the gunfire was heard, starts up the stairs to see if he can escape. Written by
Stephen King
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