The stolen Mercedes emerges from the pre-dawn fog and plows through a crowd of men and women on line for a job fair in a distressed American city. Then the lone driver backs up, charges again, and speeds off, leaving eight dead and more wounded. The case goes unsolved and ex-cop Bill Hodges is out of hope when he gets a letter from a man who loved the feel of death under the Mercedes’s wheels Brady Hartsfield wants that rush again, but this time he’s going big, with an attack that would take down thousands—unless Hodges and two new unusual allies he picks up along the way can throw a wrench in Hartsfield’s diabolical plans.
This is only the second Stephen King book I've read, and I enjoyed this much more than I enjoyed the last one.
Despite not being a horror (which is what I tend to associate with Stephen King), it was a rather disturbing crime story!
I really liked the main characters, especially Hodges, Jerome and Holly. Holly probably had to be my favourite, especially her development as a person.
As it got towards the end of the book, it got harder and harder to put it down. All the different strands seemed to twist together until they finally come together in an explosive finale.
