Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
Praise for Mr. Mercedes "Classic Stephen King. Creepy, yet
realistic characters that get under your skin and stay there, a
compelling story that twists and turns at breakneck speed, and
delightful prose that, once again, proves that one of America's
greatest natural storytellers is also one of its finest writers."--
"Associated Press"
"Stephen King's Bill Hodges Trilogy has proved to be a welcome
change of pace for the best-selling Maine author... The wintery,
blood-soaked climax of the novel provides a fitting resolution not
only to the action at hand but to the trilogy as a whole. King will
always be best known for his tales of supernatural horror, but it's
great fun to watch him experiment with form, genre and subject
matter. He has more than his fair share of laurels, but he never
seems to rest on them. Here's hoping King can maintain the creative
momentum of the Bill Hodges Trilogy as he heads into the next
uncharted literary territory."--Michael Berry, The Portland Press
Herald
"Outstanding... 'End of Watch' gives us King at the height of his
powers. Masterfully plotted, the novel is propelled toward its
page-blurring conclusion by two deadly forces: Hodges' advancing
disease and Brady's relentless murderous impulse."-- "John Wilwol,
Newsday"
"A satisfying conclusion to this crackerjack detective series... As
the book's title suggests, there is finality and loss in the final
pages. Readers may find themselves wiping away a few tears as this
well-written, involving series comes to an end."-- "Doug Knoop, The
Seattle Times"
"The book leaves a surprisingly deep, melancholy mark,
crystallizing the themes that have become prevalent in King's
recent work...'End of Watch' hurtles toward a conclusion you
anticipate and dread in equal measure -- that wonderful, terrible
anxiety King's constant readers have been relishing for more than
four decades now. 'He's not done with you yet, ' reads an ominous
message Hodges receives on his computer in End of Watch. We're
lucky. King isn't done with us either."-- "Rene Rodriguez, The
Miami Herald"
Praise for End of Watch "King has dealt before with this novel's
different themes--endowment with dangerous supernatural powers, the
zombifying effect of modern consumer electronics--but he finds
fresh approaches to them and inventive ways to introduce them in
the lives of his recurring cast of sympathetic characters, whose
pains and triumphs the reader feels. King's legion of fans will
find this splice of mystery and horror a fitting finale to his Bill
Hodges trilogy."-- "Publishers Weekly, STARRED review"
Praise for Finders Keepers "Stephen King's superb new
stay-up-all-night thriller, Finders Keepers, is a sly, often
poignant tale of literary obsession that recalls the themes of his
classic 1987 novel Misery...a love letter to the joys of reading
and to American literature... wonderful, scary, moving."--
"Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post"
"King works his customary storytelling magic, unspooling the plot
threads almost as quickly as readers can turn the pages... If
you're wrapping up the trilogy, enjoy. If you're just getting
started, you're in for a thrilling ride."-- "Rob Merrill, The
Associated Press"
"A deliciously savory conclusion to King's phenomenal hard-boiled
Mr. Mercedes trilogy...gripping... as strong a King series as The
Dark Tower in terms of characterization and pure storytelling. When
it comes to the gumshoe genre, though, fingers crossed King's not
yet closed for business."-- "Brian Truitt, USA Today"
"As in Misery and TheShining, King swan dives into the looniness
lurking at both ends of thewriter-reader transaction...the
narrative hums and roars along like ahigh-performance vehicle...a
rip-snortingentertainment; one that also works as a sneaky-smart
satire of literarycriticism and how even the most attentive readers
can often miss the wholepoint."-- "Kirkus Reviews, starred
review"
"Few of King's myriad terrors feel as visceral and close to home as
the sense of human mortality that looms over his new book, End of
Watch... an undeniable page-turner... Throughout his tale, King
nimbly pulls together numerous plot threads and characters...and
for good measure throws in a final nail-biting chase through a
blizzard. One finishes this novel feeling great empathy for its
resolute protagonist, and even greater trepidation about that next
round of Candy Crush."-- "Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post"
"Think of Mr. Mercedes as an AC/DC song: uncluttered, chugging with
momentum, and a lot harder to pull off than it looks. . . . King
has written a hot rod of a novel, perfect for a few summer days at
the pool. Mercedes-Benz commands drivers to demand 'the best or
nothing.' In pop-fiction terms, that motto still applies to Stephen
King, too. With apologies to AC/DC, the highway to hell never felt
so fun."-- "Christian Science Monitor"
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