In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. Eight people are killed fifteen are wounded. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again.
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. #1 New York Times bestseller! In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.
I find it utterly embarrassing, as a reader, that I haven’t read many of his books. King transcends genre, and is too warm and compassionate a writer to settle for jaggedly noir suspense.I am finally adding King into my backlog book rotation. When it comes to grabbing an audience by the throat and giving them no choice but to keep reading, King has no equal, and I challenge you not to finish this novel in one breathless sitting. There should have been a sticker on the cover ' no book mark required' - Shots To be held firmly by the hand, through this tough crime thriller by the assured narrative skill of Stephen King, make the act of reading an event. It is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can write in whatever genre he chooses. On another, it is a novel of depth and character enriched throughout by the grace notes King provides in such seemingly effortless profusion. On one level, MR MERCEDES is an expertly crafted example of the classic race-against-the-clock thriller. He's back with a novel different from, but as good as, anything he's previously done - The TimesĪ tightly plotted crime novel that retains that essential, instantly recognizable flavor that has distinguished King's fiction for more than 40 years. I challenge you not to read this book in one breathless sitting - GuardianĪ thrilling cat-and-mouse game - Irish Mail on SundayĮnough to say that Mr Mercedes goes out not with one bang, but several - all satisfyingly unexpected.
recommended to crime buffs and King fans alike. Stephen King might just be America's greatest living novelist.
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