New Delhi:
In bestselling author Stephen King new suspense thriller a retired cop and a couple of unlikely allies race against time to stop a psycho-loner intent on blowing up thousands.
In the gloomy pre-dawn hours of a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of unemployed hopefuls are lined up for a job fair. Without warning, a merciless driver plows through the crowd in a roaring Mercedes. Eight people are killed; 15 are wounded. The killer escapes into the early-spring fog never to be seen from again.
“Mr Mercedes”, published in UK by Hodder & Stoughton and in India by Hachette, is a cat-and-mouse suspense story featuring a retired homicide detective whos haunted by the few cases he left open, and particularly the pre-dawn slaughter.
Detective Bill Hodges is a battle-hardened and streetwise crime fighter originally assigned to the Mercedes killings. Now retired, Hodges has lost his way in boredom and depression craving the thrills of taking down the region’s most notorious criminals.
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.
After the disturbing letter arrives at his door, Hodges soon finds himself uncontrollably drawn into a pursuit with stakes beyond comprehension.
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.
