

Should Hodges devote himself to investigating Brady or should he take time to get treated for his rapidly worsening condition? Trying to answer that question only adds to the novel’s tension.Ī laconic character, Hodges has been easy company over the course of “Mr.


Mercedes,” seems to have returned to action, despite being confined to a hospital ward - his brain, if not his body, fully operational. His arch-nemesis Brady Hartsfield, the mass murderer he stalked in the trilogy’s first volume, “Mr. But Hodges, who runs a small private agency called Finders Keepers with his partner, Holly Gibney, is preoccupied by some other news that may be just as bad. Just how bad may be ominously presaged by the title. $30.Īt the start of this final installment of Stephen King’s trilogy featuring the retired police detective Bill Hodges, his hero is “pushing 70” and getting bad news from his doctor.
