In a mega-stakes high-suspense race against time three of the most unlikely and winning
heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In
the frigid pre-dawn hours in a distressed Midwestern city hundreds of desperate unemployed
folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning a lone driver plows through the
crowd in a stolen Mercedes running over the innocent backing up and charging again. Eight
people are killed fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. In another part of town months
later a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. When he gets a
crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the perk and threatens an even more
diabolical attack Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement hell-bent on
preventing another tragedy. Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where
he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes and he wants that
rush again. Only Bill Hodges with a couple of highly unlikely allies can apprehend the killer
before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose because Brady's next mission if it
succeeds will kill or maim thousands. Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil from the
master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed insane killer is chilling and
unforgettable
