End of Watch: A Novel [Hardcover]

#1New York TimesBestseller andNew York TimesNotable Book
Now an AT&T Audience Original Series

The spectacular finale to theNew York Timesbestselling trilogy that began withMr. Mercedes(winner of the Edgar Award) andFinders Keepers—InEnd 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 ofMr. MercedesandFinders 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.

InEnd of Watch, Stephen King brings the Hodges trilogy to a sublimely terrifying conclusion, combining the detective fiction ofMr. MercedesandFinders Keeperswith the heart-pounding, supernatural suspense that has been his bestselling trademarkl3œ