End of Watch

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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers In End of Watch, the diabolical Mercedes Killer drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don t figure out a way to stop him, they ll be victims themselves.
In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room.
Retired police detective Bill Hodges, the unlikely hero of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, now runs an investigation agency with his partner, Holly Gibney the woman who delivered the blow to Hartsfield s head that put him on the brain injury ward. When Bill and Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of Bill s heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara. Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city.
In End of Watch, Stephen King brings the Hodges trilogy to a sublimely terrifying conclusion, combining the detective fiction of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers with the heart-pounding, supernatural suspense that has been his bestselling trademark. The result is an unnerving look at human vulnerability and chilling suspense. No one does it better than King."

作者简介

Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Bill Hodges Trilogy, Revival, and Doctor Sleep. 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 as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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I have read many Stephen King books. My favorite books are when he spends the time to develop rich characters with a supernatural edge that can border on reality. I believe he committed himself to a trilogy and struggled to finish it with this book.

I was disappointed in his use of telekinesis in the book which he has used in the past. I believe it was close to "jumping the shark" with Brady's third attempt at mass killings.

In the end, I read it to comple the trilogy. However, when I tell friends that King is a great writer with Rich dialogue, charachrkter development and he goes way beyond horror, I would not recommend this trilogy or this book. He has done and can do much better.

Interesting series! Neither Mr. Mercedes nor Finders Keepers depended on Stephen King's talent for the supernatural...but both were terrifically suspenseful.

In "End of Watch", King amped up the suspense--palpable throughout the novel--and threw in the stuff that made him famous...eerie supernatural occurrences, made utterly believable by his masterful writing.

But, for me, the real treasures in End of Watch are King's characters. Bill, Jerome and Holly are some of the most realistic and endearing characters King has written, and during the course of the trilogy, you can feel them develop & grow. Holly, especially, is most memorable and wonderfully unique. As for Brady-- the villain we loved to hate in Mr. Mercedes? No letdown there, either!

While "Finders Keepers" wasn't my favorite King novel, I thought "End of Watch" was the perfect conclusion to the Bill Hodges Trilogy.

By the way, while the three novels are best read as a trilogy, King has included enough background in each (without being horribly repetitive) that they could, I suppose, be read as stand alone novels...but you'd be missing out.

I was anxiously awaiting the conclusion to the Bill Hodges Trilogy from Stephen King after blasting through the first two books in the series. The way the second book ended I was expecting something completely different from what King delivered in this conclusion. This is definitely a departure from the rather gritty, real-world detective fiction that the previous two novels presented. Instead King re-entered some of the realms he presented in earlier works like Carrie and the Green Mile. Much more supernatural than parts one and two, but totally engrossing and exciting. The novel is long, as are most King books of late, but it's a rather quick read - hard to put down - just one more chapter. Obviously it won't make much sense if you haven't read the first two books even though King does a good job of refreshing your memory of what went on before. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

The last of three

Hence a trilogy, see how that works out? I'm an off-and-of King fan. I admire and respect him as a story-teller but I don't always care for the stories he choses to tell. I read the first of this trilogy, "Mr. Mercedes," and found it a good yarn--good enough to read the other two in the set. "Mr. Mercedes" sets the stage and introduces us to the characters. It also describes the central event that is at the core of the story, the three stories. There's not a lot of supernatural in this first volume; it's pretty much a straight-forward thriller and a pretty good one. The middle volume, "Finders Keepers," introduces some new characters and a new story and it is also a thriller. This story, the third, has the spooky weirdness we mostly associate with King. It's a thriller also but uses tele-kinesthesis and other unusual aspects. As with all King books, this story is well written and plotted, and we've come to enjoy the characters. If Mr. King writes more books like these, I will once again be a steady reader.

This trilogy went progressively downhill to this last one. I have read and enjoyed most of King's books, and I would put this one as one of his weakest. You could see where it was going pretty much from the start. The entire trilogy should have been one medium size book. That might have helped the characters from changing personality during the story. It also would have helped compress out some of the extraneous padding that entered. Finally, for a story wherein there are a lot of moving parts, it is very difficult (for me at least) to remember who is whom and what they did to each other over the year or more it took all three books to come to market.

Halfway through this book, I just wanted it to be over.

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