The dome conforms exactly with the town's borders, extends thousands of feet high and under the ground and is completely impenetrable.
Big Jim also has a little side business, a methamphetamine operation that's grown so huge that he's having trouble hiding all the money.Įverything changes one fine October afternoon when an invisible dome descends over Chester's Mill. Officially he's Second Selectman, letting the town pharmacist hold the top position and take all the blame for the town's troubles. And when things go wrong - and they go monumentally, spectacularly wrong in "Under the Dome" - Big Jim isn't afraid to twist some arms (or worse) to make sure things go his way.īig Jim rules Chester's Mill.
Bernard from "Cujo," Jack Torrance from "The Shining," the possessed '58 Plymouth Fury from "Christine." But very few of King's bad guys can creep you out quite like Big Jim Rennie, the used car salesman and wannabe dictator at the heart of King's mammoth new novel, "Under the Dome."īig Jim is a god-fearing man who never swears and always does what he feels is best for the people of his town, tiny Chester's Mill, Maine. Stephen King has created some memorable villains in the million or so novels he's written: Pennywise the homicidal clown from "It," the rabid St.
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