Suddenly he receives a letter signed by a "Mr. He is divorced, lonely and fed up with his life, occasionally considering suicide. Immediately after that, the protagonist is introduced, Bill Hodges, a former police detective retired for six months. The novel starts with a scene in which jobless people stand in line for a job fair, when a Mercedes rides into the crowd and kills eight people and injures many severely. Mercedes from detonating a bomb during a sold out pop concert in this novel by Stephen King.
Mercedes is the first installment in The Bill Hodges Trilogy.Ī TV series based on the novel premiered on August 9th, 2017.Ī retired police detective, a teenage black boy, and a neurotic woman team up to form an unlikely group of heroes who stop a killer known as Mr. The book was released on June 3, 2014, and was followed in 2015 by a sequel, Finders Keepers. It is his 52nd novel, and the 45th under his own name. Mercedes is the 65th novel book published by Stephen King.
Related: Every Stephen King Movie Streaming On Netflix 65.Mr. Each of Stephen King's novels is impeccable in its own right, but some are certainly better than others. King has quickly become known as the king of literary horror, with a legacy that could make his last name the definition of the genre. Over the years, he has written screenplays with his son Joe Hill - of NOS4A2 and Locke & Key fame - and co-authored a novel with his youngest son, Owen King, titled Sleeping Beauties. King also commonly collaborates with other writers. There are numerous upcoming King stories in development to become a series or movie.
Movie adaptations of Stephen King books are released at the same frequency as his literary tales, with at least one making its debut every year since 1980. Carrie was his first movie adaptation, but it was nowhere near last. Over his 50 years of writing, King has authored over 200 short stories and novellas, as well as 65 novels.
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