He receives a letter in the post from the Mercedes killer himself taunting him on a case he never solved.

Fast forward one year later, our main character is a retired detective Bill Hodges, who is overweight, depressed, eating junk food and contemplating on killing himself. The story begins with a prologue, where unemployed jobseekers attend a job fair at the City Center at early dawn, but then a grey Mercedes drives through the crowd running over innocent people, resulting in the deaths of eight people and fifteen injured. The book trailer is actually more interesting than the book itself. We all know what a greater writer King is and I do love me a good thriller, but unfortunately I don’t think Mr Mercedes is in line as some of his best work. It took me quite a long time to finish this. When I asked her what are her favourites, she mentioned The Running Man and I said ‘ oh is that similar to the Hunger Games?’ You can imagine how offended she was, no scratch that, she was actually insulted. My friend’s influence is the only reason why I have started reading the legendary king of horror and suspense. I started it but I wasn’t in a mood for it, so I didn’t continue, but I think I will return to it (at some point). The first book she recommended to me The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon because it isn’t scary. My friend and my only bookish friend is a massive Stephen King fan. I’ve always said I’ll read Stephen King but just never got round to it. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.įINALLY I’ve read me some Stephen King! It has been a long time coming. And they have no time to lose, because Brady’s next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.

Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of highly unlikely allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the “perk” and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy.īrady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. 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. Genre: Adult Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Suspense Published by: Hodder Paperbacks, April 23rd 2015

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