Mr. Mercedes

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Call Number: BOCD Fiction, Adult BOCD / Fiction / Thriller / King, Stephen
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / Thriller / King, Stephen	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Unabridged.
Read by Will Patton.
Bill Hodges is bumping around, barely registering his retirement, when a maniac in a stolen Mercedes repeatedly drives into a line of unemployed folks waiting in the gray dawn of a gray Midwestern city for a job fair to open. Eight people are killed and 15 injured. Hodges immediately enlists two allies to help him find the killer, who so loved his little taste of death that he's planning to blow up thousands.
"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 Hartfield 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Good Audiobook submitted by monkk on June 16, 2015, 1:32pm Will Patton does a fine job of reading this audiobook. It's a great detective story that includes likeable characters and an ending that will keep you on the edge of your seat!

pART ONE OF tHREE submitted by Judeyblu on July 21, 2016, 8:31pm While not with supernatural overtones this was a good thriller.
The unlikely trio that looks for Mr. Mercedes is likeable and believable.
There were some nods to other King books, and the details was pure classic King.
I read it because I want to read all three books in the trilogy.
The cliffhanging end tees up the second book very well.

Great submitted by dahyatt on August 8, 2016, 12:30am Another great story from Stephen King.

This is why I don't like Steven King books submitted by 21621031390949 on July 20, 2018, 2:05pm I decided it was high time for me to read my first Stephen King novel, so not wanting a horror book, I picked up this mystery in the recorded-book version. This book is everything I was afraid it would be, and worse. The writing is lousy, the characters are unbelievable, it's misogynist, and it's creepy. Plus, the reader growls it like a Guy Noir story.
Here's the worst thing: Even though I disliked it enough that I found myself yelling things like "No way the beautiful blonde with clear blue eyes would seduce the fat, sloppy, depressed ex-cop" while I was driving, the story is just compelling enough that I continued to listen to find out how it ends.