Title: In the Deathroom
Description: A man named Fletcher is held captive in a South American stronghold.  His captors will use any tortuous means necessary to extract the information they want from him. His only hope lies with his last request--one last cigarette.
([source][1])


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Also contained in:

 - [Everything's Eventual][2]


  [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/short_story/in_the_deathroom.html
  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81584W/Everything's_Eventual
Subjects: short stories, fiction, Suspense fiction, American horror tales, journalists, hostages, The New York Times, interrogation, communism, insurgency, seizures
Places: South America, New York
People: Fletcher