End of Watch (The Bill Hodges Trilogy Book 3)

✍ Scribed by Stephen King

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 237 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The cell rings twice, and then his old partner in his ear... 'I'm at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide. I'd like you to come and take a look. Bring your sidekick with you, if she's available...'

Retired Detective Bill Hodges now runs a two-person firm called Finders Keepers with his partner Holly Gibney. They met in the wake of the 'Mercedes Massacre' when a queue of people was run down by the diabolical killer Brady Hartsfield.

Brady is now confined to Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, in an unresponsive state. But all is not what it seems: the evidence suggests that Brady is somehow awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room.

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.

The clock is ticking in unexpected ways ...

Both a stand-alone novel of heart-pounding suspense and a sublimely terrifying final episode in the Hodges trilogy, End of Watch takes the series into a powerful new dimension.

The extract above is abridged from End of Watch.

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Amazon.com Review

An Amazon Best Book of June 2016: It has been seven years since the Mercedes Killer, Brady Hartsfield, was knocked on the head and put into a catatonic state. But now he's awake, even if people haven't quite been clued into that fact, and he's got a score to settle. His ultimate quarry is the detective Bill Hodges, and as Brady gains his facultiesas well as some new paranormal skills (telekinesis anyone?)people start committing suicide at a mysterious and alarming rate. King hits his sweet spot in this final episode of the Bill Hodges Trilogy, introducing his talent for horror into a storyline that already has featured some great detective writing. The result is a book that mixes revenge, crime, and otherworldly powers, bringing the trilogy to a thrilling, satisfying close. --Chris Schluep, The Amazon Book Review

Review

THE BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR ... recommended to crime buffs and King fans alike Sunday Express on MR MERCEDES I challenge you not to read this book in one breathless sitting Guardian on MR MERCEDES King continues to tweak the hard-boiled genre in spectacular ways USA Today on FINDERS KEEPERS A classic cat-and-mouse tale, this is King at his rip-roaring best Mail on Sunday on FINDERS KEEPERS Fantastic ... In part a love letter to literature, this is vintage King ... Roll on the last in the trilogy Sunday Mirror on FINDERS KEEPERS