The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling
trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar
Award) and Finders Keepers—In End of Watch, the diabolical
“Mercedes Killer” drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill
Hodges and Holly Gibney don’t figure out a way to stop him,
they’ll be victims themselves.
In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury
Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady
Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where
eight people were killed and many more were badly injured,
has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative
state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a
complete recovery is unlikely. 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.
Retired police detective Bill Hodges, the unlikely hero of
Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, now runs an investigation
agency with his partner, Holly Gibney—the woman who
delivered the blow to Hartsfield’s head that put him on the
brain injury ward. When Bill and Holly are called to a
suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find
themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one
that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of
Bill’s heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage
sister, Barbara. Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning
revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire
city.
In End of Watch, Stephen King brings the Hodges trilogy to a
sublimely terrifying conclusion, combining the detective
fiction of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers with the
heart-pounding, supernatural suspense that has been his
bestselling trademark. The result is an unnerving look at
human vulnerability and chilling suspense. No one does it
better than King.