Mr. Mercedes -- Stephen King - Hardcover
#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. 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. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. 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. Brady Hartsfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of highly unlikely allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady's next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands. Mr. 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.
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 06/03/2014
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781476754451
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 21
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 169715 / Mr. Mercedes
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2014 pg. 70
Entertainment Weekly 01/17/2014 pg. 47
Publishers Weekly 04/07/2014
Booklist 04/15/2014 pg. 19
Library Journal 05/15/2014 pg. 72
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2014
Entertainment Weekly 05/16/2014 pg. 42
Shelf Awareness 06/03/2014
New York Times Book Review 06/08/2014 pg. 18
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 28
Library Journal 05/15/2015 pg. 74
Library Journal 01/01/2014
About the Author
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.