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.
"On one level, Mr. Mercedes is an expertly crafted example of the
classic race-against-the-clock thriller. On another, it is a novel
of depth and character enriched throughout by the grace notes King
provides in such seemingly effortless profusion. It is a rich,
resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can
write in whatever genre he chooses."-- "Washington Post"
"Along book that doesn't feel like one. King's pacing is perfect
here . . . [Y]ou should read Mr. Mercedes. You'll be checking your
automobile's back seat for months, if not years."--
"BookReporter.com"
"Hartfield is sensitive, sympathetic and one of King's most
realistic characters. He is a lot like Norman Bates from Psycho, in
the worst ways imaginable.You can add Hartfield to the list of
great King villains, alongside the shape-shifting monster Pennywise
from It and the hypnotic vampire Kurt Barlow from Salem's Lot."--
"Boston Herald"
"King may have left out the supernatural in Mr. Mercedes, but his
gifts for creating thoroughly believable characters and thrumming
suspense are in full play. He keeps raising the stakes and
ratcheting up the violence, and just when you think everything is
settled there's one spine-icing little turn on the very last
page."-- "Tampa Bay Times"
"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"
"With Mr.Mercedes, [King] demonstrates that he can still rock a
pure genre novel like nobody's business. . . . a thrilling example
of King's boundless imagination."-- "Bookpage"
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