Stephen King is one of the greatest writers alive today. He always has a well-structured plot and a delightful turn of phrase. He is best known for his horror but I think his greatest achievement is the way he shows American life and culture in microcosm, engaging us in the lives of his characters. What people do to each other is far scarier than any monster. This is an excellent read if you want something firmly grounded in reality without the supernatural. Not horror but still in places horrifying. Circumstances, coincidences, bad detection all combine with grotesque inevitability. Two points of view, retired cop and crazed killer, and I felt for both these lovely characters and many of those around them. An excellent start to a trilogy, an excellent piece of writing, an excellent read.
Books in The Bill Hodges Trilogy:
1. Mr Mercedes
3. End of Watch
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Without warning, a lone driver ploughed through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes. The plot is kicked into gear when Bill Hodges receives a letter in the mail, from a man claiming to be the perpetrator. He taunts Hodges with the notion that he will strike again. Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing that from happening. Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. And he's preparing to kill again. Only Hodges, with a couple of misfit friends, can apprehend the killer in this high-stakes race against time. Because Brady's next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim hundreds, even thousands.
Mr Mercedes features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Crime and Mystery, Fiction, Recommendations
Mr Mercedes is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback
Mr Mercedes was written by Stephen King and published by Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Mr Mercedes has 405 pages
Yes it is part of The Bill Hodges Trilogy series
£9.89
