Under the Dome by Stephen King

First up?  An author who needs no introduction in a genre he defined.  I'm jumping in head first.  Stephen King's Under the Dome, published in November 2009. 

Here's the publisher's synopsis:

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mills, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away.
Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s running out.

Gorgeous coverwork.  It was evidently an ambitious design that turned out beautifully.  Click here to see the whole thing.

King is one of those authors I always meant to read but never did, and as I read the synopsis of Under the Dome, it didn't seem like a horror novel, more like a psychological thriller, though if you think about it, that's what good horror is.  I'm looking forward to this being a good book.  He wouldn't have sold bazillions of other books if he wasn't at least an adequate author, right?  Right??