By Stephen King
Mr Mercedes es los angeles historia de una guerra entre el Bien y el Mal. Un retrato inolvidable de l. a. mente de un asesino obsesionado y demente.
Justo antes del amanecer, en una decadente ciudad americana, cientos de parados esperan l. a. apertura de los angeles oficina de empleo para reclamar uno de los mil puestos de trabajo que se han anunciado. Han hecho cola durante toda los angeles noche.
De pronto, invisible hasta que lo tienen prácticamente encima, un Mercedes surge de l. a. fría niebla de l. a. madrugada. Su conductor atropella y aplasta a todos los que encuentra a su alcance. Acto seguido, el coche da marcha atrás y vuelve a arremeter contra ellos. El asesino huye dejando atrás ocho muertos y quince heridos.
Meses después, invoice Hodges, un policía jubilado que sigue obsesionado con este caso sin resolver, recibe una carta anónima de alguien que se declara culpable de los angeles masacre.
Brady Hartsfield vive con su madre alcohólica en los angeles casa donde nació. Disfrutó tanto de aquella sensación de muerte debajo de los neumáticos del Mercedes que ahora quiere recuperarla.
¿Quién es el cazador y quién los angeles presa?
Bill Hodges: policía jubilado.
Brady Hartsfield: asesino a number of cuya culpabilidad invoice Hodges nunca logró demostrar.
Ahora vuelven a encontrarse y cientos de vidas están en juego.
Un mystery sin par del gran maestro Stephen King.
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In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race opposed to time, 3 of the main not likely and profitable heroes Stephen King has ever created attempt to cease a lone killer from blowing up thousands.
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern urban, countless numbers of determined unemployed fogeys are covered up for a place at a task reasonable. without notice, a lone motive force plows during the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, operating over the blameless, backing up, and charging back. 8 everyone is killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.
In one other a part of city, months later, a retired cop named invoice Hodges continues to be haunted by means of the unsolved crime. while he will get a crazed letter from a person who self-identifies because the “perk” and threatens a fair extra diabolical assault, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on combating one other tragedy.
Brady Hartsfield lives together with his alcoholic mom in the home the place he used to be born. He enjoyed the texture of dying less than the wheels of the Mercedes, and he desires that rush back. simply invoice Hodges, with a few hugely not going allies, can understand the killer prior to he moves back. they usually don't have any time to lose, simply because Brady’s subsequent venture, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.
Mr. Mercedes is a struggle among solid and evil, from the grasp of suspense whose perception into the brain of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.