When the novel begins, Bill Denbrough is a successful novelist in England for the filming of a movie version of one of his books. Bill's wife is a successful actress who is starring in this film. From the outside, Bill seems like a quiet, soft spoken man who has everything a person could possibly desire from life. However, a single phone call changes all of that. Bill takes a call from a childhood friend and suddenly memories begin coming back to him of a childhood that was less than perfect. Bill remembers the death of his brother, a life altering event that Bill has hardly thought about in more than twenty years. Bill remembers a promise made to a group of friends, but cannot remember what the promise is about. However, the mark of.....
