The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. And well… I already told you about the end. It was so enmeshed in reality that the impossible started to seem possible.Įnd of Watch ends perfectly.

That is my Stephen King barometer – the equivalent of how many times I put my hands in front of the eyes. I had to close the book at times because the horror of what Brady could do and was doing scared the s*** out of me. I started the novel on a sunny morning waiting for a crowded train. Anything hanging forgotten in the closet? A tube of toothpaste left in the bathroom? Maybe a cufflink under the bed? And that reads like hypnotic fish.īrady looks around the inside of his head like a man giving a hotel room one last check after a long-term stay. If that wasn’t worrisome enough, Bill has lost weight and has piercing pain, but won’t see a doctor… until he does.Īlthough the Constant Reader knows who is behind the rash of suicides, the clues to the impossible are so intricate and twisted, we feel triumph as genius Jerome, relentless Hodges, and robot Holly figure things out in baby steps. They find another weird connection – an old fashioned handheld game console from a company that went belly-up. Hodges and Holly, PIs at the Finders Keepers agency, are called in by Bill’s old partner. Soon, those connected to the 2009 massacre, and those at the ‘Round Here concert where Brady got his brains smashed, are suddenly committing suicide. Coma Brady has gone full “Carrie” without the mobility… until he manages to walk and stalk the world, without leaving his hospital room. The sleeping bag with 3 crushed bodies brings us back to who they used to be. Mercedes” night, but from the perspective of 2 EMTs who suddenly got called in to witness horror. Now, in End of Watch, Brady Hartsfield is awake and plotting, and it’s up to Hodges and the gang to stop him.Ī few spoilers from End of Watch by Stephen King below.Įnd of Watch starts out pretty clever. Although it strayed from the first novel, the connecting tendrils satisfied that basic reader need. Finders Keepers, puts Hartsfield’s story on hold as Hodges, Jerome, and Holly reunite to save a boy from an author-obsessed lunatic killer. Mercedes was riveting excitement on every page. With the help of a young boy and a a woman with “graying hair and the face of a neurotic teenager,” the trio managed to put the killer, Brady Hartsfield, down and in a coma. Retired cop Bill Hodges obsessed about catching “Mr. In 2009, a suicide obsessed killer drove a Mercedes-Benz through a crowd of unemployed, waiting for a job fair to open up, murdering and maiming as many as he could. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch.

Warning! Spoilers ahead for the Bill Hodges Trilogy – Mr.

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