A cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring a retired homicide detective who’s haunted by the few cases he left open, and by one in particular – the pre-dawn slaughter of eight people among hundreds gathered in line for the opening of a jobs fair when the economy was guttering out. 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 Hartsfield 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.
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1st of a trilogy
Crazed killer uses Mercedes to kill people that are a job fair. Needless to say the police are wanting to get this guy and stop him b4 he kills again. Good and easy read from King. Cast of Characters are worth the price of admission. Soon to be a series on Starz, i think.
The entire trilogy was excellent.
This trilogy is as good as anything Mr. King has put out in the last twenty years. A bit of a departure from his normal writing. He is so good at developing characters that I loved watching it happen over a series of books.