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"King deftly takes elements of hard-boiled mysteries and puts a fresh spin on them." - USA Today "An oh-so-dark mystery that never shuts the door on love, loss and, possibly, redemption." - Cleveland Plain Dealer "A literary Van de Graaff generator: tightly paced and parsed with dynamic dialogue and traumatic twists." - Columbus Dispatch You'll have to swallow them all in a single gulp." - Sarasota Herald Tribune "A full-throttle sprint to the finish the last 80 pages cannot be doled out over multiple reading sessions. "The nerve-shredding denouement is vintage King—a pulse-pounding race against time. The majority of the book is merciless and unforgiving, and the scariest thing about it is how plausible the whole scenario is." - Miami Herald in reliably fine form." - The New York Times "A taut, suspenseful race-against-time book. "It is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can write in whatever genre he chooses." - Washington Post

Surprising and invigorating." - The New York Times "Nicely dark, never predictable and altogether entertaining." - Kirkus Reviews "This exists outside of the usual Kingverse ( Pennywise the Clown is referred to as fictive) add that to the atypical present-tense prose, and this feels pretty darn fresh. "King excels in his disturbing portrait of Brady, a genuine monster in ordinary human form who gives new meaning to the phrase'the banality of evil." - Publisher's Weekly 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. 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 Hartsfield 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.

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.