TY - BOOK AU - King,Stephen TI - Mr. Mercedes: a novel SN - 9781476754451 (hbk.) : AV - PS3561.I483 M519 2014 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Scribner KW - Mercedes automobile KW - Fiction KW - Serial murderers KW - FICTION / General KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Horror KW - FICTION / Suspense KW - Horror fiction KW - gsafd KW - Suspense fiction N2 - "In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded ... In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the 'perk' and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy"-- ER -