Floating Dragon by Peter Straub6/22/2023 By the time Leo returns home it is high above Hampstead and already causing death and hallucinations, but his dead wife in their bed is no hallucination. DRG-16, a new kind of nerve gas, has turned three men into slush as it seeps out of its containment tank and soon becomes very nearly conscious, a malevolence creeping across the land. Set during the spring and summer of 1980, the novel deals with events that befall the affluent suburb of Hampstead, Connecticut.Īn adulterous housewife named Stony Friedgood is brutally murdered by a man she picks up in a bar at the same time, her husband, Leo, is involved in a cover-up at a chemical plant conducting research for the Department of Defense.
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