I once loved King’s quirky sense of the magical and macabre so had to remind myself that – in his world – ANYTHING is possible. King is in his element here and my usual avoidance of the fantastic had to be held at bay. In the meantime we meet Brady and his – ummm – team. A spate of suicides has his attention however particularly given the victims’ links to Bill’s comatose nemesis.
Bill’s unwell and it’s worse than an ulcer or a bit of indigestion. This novel is very much centred around Bill, his Finders Keepers’ partner Holly and the comatose-but-still-dangerous Brady.īut things are changing. Because Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning revenge not just on Bill Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city. When Bill and Holly are called to a murder-suicide with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put not only their lives at risk, but those of Hodges’s friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, now runs an investigation agency with his partner, Holly Gibney, who delivered the blow to Hartsfield's head that put him on the brain injury ward. Retired police detective Bill Hodges, the unlikely hero of Mr. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room.
So I enjoyed it a lot.īrady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic for five years, in a vegetative state.Īccording to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. I mostly enjoyed Finders Keepers and you can check out my review here, but… without the Mr Mercedes backstory I failed to really engage with Bill Hodges and his cohorts – who entered the Finders Keepers plot when I was already well and truly settled in with its main protagonist, young Peter Saubers and his family.Įnd of Watch seems to return to where Mr Mercedes left off, but interestingly, provides a really good recap of the key points of the original. Mr Mercedes received great reviews which tempted me (after a long break from King’s fiction) to read the second in the series, Finders Keepers. I missed the first in this Stephen King trilogy.
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