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End of Watch is a crime novel by American writer Stephen King, the third volume of a trilogy focusing on Detective Bill Hodges, following Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers. The book was first announced at an event at St. Francis College on April 21, 2015 under the title The Suicide Prince. On June 10, the new title End of Watch was announced.
Now an AT&T Audience Original SeriesA masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes much too far—the #1 New York Times bestseller about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King introduced in Mr. Mercedes.“Wake up, genius.” So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein, who once created the famous character Jimmy Gold and hasn’t released anything since. Morris is livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sellout. Morris kills his idol and empties his safe of cash, but the real haul is a collection of notebooks containing John Rothstein’s unpublished work.including at least one more Jimmy Gold novel. Morris hides everything away before being locked up for another horrific crime. But upon Morris’s release thirty-five years later, he’s about to discover that teenager Pete Saubers has already found the stolen treasure—and no one but former police detective Bill Hodges, along with his trusted associates Holly Gibney and Jerome Robinson, stands in the way of his vengeance.Not since Misery has Stephen King played with the notion of a reader and murderous obsession, in this #1 acclaimed bestseller filled with “nail biting suspense that’s the hallmark of his best work” ( Publishers Weekly). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr.
Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller.
His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
The second book in Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy ( Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch), an AT&T Audience Original Series, now in its second season!' Stephen King's superb new stay-up-all-night thriller is a sly tale of literary obsession that recalls the themes of his classic 1987 novel Misery' ( The Washington Post)-the #1 New York Times bestseller about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King introduced in Mr. Wake up, genius.'
So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein, who once created the famous character Jimmy Gold and hasn't released anything since. Morris is livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sellout. Morris kills his idol and empties his safe of cash, but the real haul is a collection of notebooks containing John Rothstein's unpublished work.including at least one more Jimmy Gold novel. Morris hides everything away-the money and the manuscripts no one but Gold ever saw-before being locked up for another horrific crime.
But upon Morris's release thirty-five years later, he's about to discover that teenager Pete Saubers has already found the stolen treasure-and no one but former police detective Bill Hodges, along with his trusted associates Holly Gibney and Jerome Robinson, stands in the way of his vengeance.Not since Misery has Stephen King played with the notion of a reader and murderous obsession, filled with 'nail biting suspense that's the hallmark of his best work' ( Publishers Weekly). The second book in Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy ( Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch), an AT&T Audience Original Series, now in its second season! “Stephen King’s superb new stay-up-all-night thriller is a sly tale of literary obsession that recalls the themes of his classic 1987 novel Misery” ( The Washington Post)—the #1 New York Times bestseller about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King introduced in Mr. “Wake up, genius.” So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein, who once created the famous character Jimmy Gold and hasn’t released anything since. Morris is livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sellout.
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Morris kills his idol and empties his safe of cash, but the real haul is a collection of notebooks containing John Rothstein’s unpublished work.including at least one more Jimmy Gold novel. Morris hides everything away—the money and the manuscripts no one but Gold ever saw—before being locked up for another horrific crime. But upon Morris’s release thirty-five years later, he’s about to discover that teenager Pete Saubers has already found the stolen treasure—and no one but former police detective Bill Hodges, along with his trusted associates Holly Gibney and Jerome Robinson, stands in the way of his vengeance.
Not since Misery has Stephen King played with the notion of a reader and murderous obsession, filled with “nail biting suspense that’s the hallmark of his best work” ( Publishers Weekly). The second in this series, but it can be read as a stand alone. There are no ghosts or the supernatural here; this falls purely in the detective genre.
Stephen King has assembled a great cast of characters here: A shifty used rare book dealer, a murderous ex-con, a young boy, and the awesome crime-stopping trio of Holly, Jerome and Bill from Mr. The plot starts off gently and then continues to pick up steam until it's running by the end.
A young boy, Pete, finds buried treasure, including money and notebooks from a famous dead author, and he uses it to sustain his hurting family. When the money runs out, he contemplates selling the unpublished works by the famous author. The only problem is that the bookseller Pete chooses is less than above-board and the original thief is released from jail and wants his treasure back.
One of my favorite audio books. Will Patton does a great job narrating, creating wonderful, distinct character voices and gradually escalating the tension-I cannot wait for the third in this trilogy!
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I could not agree more with the review zmagic69 gave Finders Keepers: June 9, 2015. I am a life long Stephen King fan - he's my favorite author.
Received Carrie from my wife for Christmas in 1974. But recently I have been disappointed in M. Revival was a terrible book - not well presented - seems to have missed a lot of chances to be creepy and startling. My biggest problem was the hopeless ending. So I agree with zmagic69 on that.
The Bill Hodges trilogy has been mediocre at best. Mercedes spent a L O N G time on examining the car - who owned it, etc. Compared to other detective types I have read, Mr. Hodges is not very interesting. And he seemed to be an after thought in Finders Keepers - he and his cohorts just do not seem to add anything to the story. They seem to be an excuse to make this a detective /mystery story. And again there was another long pretty boring section in the middle of Finders Keepers - with the relationship between Morris Bellamy and Andy - which just did not work.
When I told my wife I was reading his latest, she asked me - 'Isn't he getting a little stale?' And I defended him - but she was right - Mr.
King should either go back to horror, or give it up. One other note: I usually go out and buy the hardback of every new novel immediately (usually about $18) - for some reason I decided to read a copy from the library - and buy the hardback later (probably for a couple of bucks) from St. Vincent De Paul.
I am glad I did. I will keep my library of every horror novel written by S. King in tact, but only because I have all his previous horror novels. This is making me sad. The second in this series, but it can be read as a stand alone. There are no ghosts or the supernatural here; this falls purely in the detective genre. Stephen King has assembled a great cast of characters here: A shifty used rare book dealer, a murderous ex-con, a young boy, and the awesome crime-stopping trio of Holly, Jerome and Bill from Mr.
The plot starts off gently and then continues to pick up steam until it's running by the end. A young boy, Pete, finds buried treasure, including money and notebooks from a famous dead author, and he uses it to sustain his hurting family.
When the money runs out, he contemplates selling the unpublished works by the famous author. The only problem is that the bookseller Pete chooses is less than above-board and the original thief is released from jail and wants his treasure back. One of my favorite audio books. Will Patton does a great job narrating, creating wonderful, distinct character voices and gradually escalating the tension-I cannot wait for the third in this trilogy! I could not agree more with the review zmagic69 gave Finders Keepers: June 9, 2015. I am a life long Stephen King fan - he's my favorite author. Received Carrie from my wife for Christmas in 1974.
But recently I have been disappointed in M. Revival was a terrible book - not well presented - seems to have missed a lot of chances to be creepy and startling. My biggest problem was the hopeless ending. So I agree with zmagic69 on that.
The Bill Hodges trilogy has been mediocre at best. Mercedes spent a L O N G time on examining the car - who owned it, etc. Compared to other detective types I have read, Mr. Hodges is not very interesting. And he seemed to be an after thought in Finders Keepers - he and his cohorts just do not seem to add anything to the story. They seem to be an excuse to make this a detective /mystery story. And again there was another long pretty boring section in the middle of Finders Keepers - with the relationship between Morris Bellamy and Andy - which just did not work.
When I told my wife I was reading his latest, she asked me - 'Isn't he getting a little stale?' And I defended him - but she was right - Mr. King should either go back to horror, or give it up. One other note: I usually go out and buy the hardback of every new novel immediately (usually about $18) - for some reason I decided to read a copy from the library - and buy the hardback later (probably for a couple of bucks) from St.
Vincent De Paul. I am glad I did. I will keep my library of every horror novel written by S. King in tact, but only because I have all his previous horror novels.
This is making me sad. The second in this series, but it can be read as a stand alone. There are no ghosts or the supernatural here; this falls purely in the detective genre.
Stephen King has assembled a great cast of characters here: A shifty used rare book dealer, a murderous ex-con, a young boy, and the awesome crime-stopping trio of Holly, Jerome and Bill from Mr. The plot starts off gently and then continues to pick up steam until it's running by the end. A young boy, Pete, finds buried treasure, including money and notebooks from a famous dead author, and he uses it to sustain his hurting family. When the money runs out, he contemplates selling the unpublished works by the famous author. The only problem is that the bookseller Pete chooses is less than above-board and the original thief is released from jail and wants his treasure back. One of my favorite audio books.
Will Patton does a great job narrating, creating wonderful, distinct character voices and gradually escalating the tension-I cannot wait for the third in this trilogy! I could not agree more with the review zmagic69 gave Finders Keepers: June 9, 2015.
I am a life long Stephen King fan - he's my favorite author. Received Carrie from my wife for Christmas in 1974. But recently I have been disappointed in M. Revival was a terrible book - not well presented - seems to have missed a lot of chances to be creepy and startling. My biggest problem was the hopeless ending. So I agree with zmagic69 on that. The Bill Hodges trilogy has been mediocre at best.
Mercedes spent a L O N G time on examining the car - who owned it, etc. Compared to other detective types I have read, Mr. Hodges is not very interesting. And he seemed to be an after thought in Finders Keepers - he and his cohorts just do not seem to add anything to the story. They seem to be an excuse to make this a detective /mystery story.
And again there was another long pretty boring section in the middle of Finders Keepers - with the relationship between Morris Bellamy and Andy - which just did not work. When I told my wife I was reading his latest, she asked me - 'Isn't he getting a little stale?' And I defended him - but she was right - Mr.
King should either go back to horror, or give it up. One other note: I usually go out and buy the hardback of every new novel immediately (usually about $18) - for some reason I decided to read a copy from the library - and buy the hardback later (probably for a couple of bucks) from St. Vincent De Paul. I am glad I did. I will keep my library of every horror novel written by S. King in tact, but only because I have all his previous horror novels.
This is making me sad. The second in this series, but it can be read as a stand alone. There are no ghosts or the supernatural here; this falls purely in the detective genre. Stephen King has assembled a great cast of characters here: A shifty used rare book dealer, a murderous ex-con, a young boy, and the awesome crime-stopping trio of Holly, Jerome and Bill from Mr. The plot starts off gently and then continues to pick up steam until it's running by the end.
A young boy, Pete, finds buried treasure, including money and notebooks from a famous dead author, and he uses it to sustain his hurting family. When the money runs out, he contemplates selling the unpublished works by the famous author.
The only problem is that the bookseller Pete chooses is less than above-board and the original thief is released from jail and wants his treasure back. One of my favorite audio books. Will Patton does a great job narrating, creating wonderful, distinct character voices and gradually escalating the tension-I cannot wait for the third in this trilogy!
I must admit to being a big fan of King's cross-over crime fiction. I really enjoyed both 'Mr Mercedes' and 'End of Watch' (yes I read them out of order) and equally loved 'Finders Keepers'. The story starts with the theft of money and manuscripts and murder of well-renoun author John Rothstein, by a sociopath bent on revenge for the 'normalisation' of his favourite literary character. Morris (murderer) buries the loot and manuscript notebooks before being arrested for another crime. During his incarnation, young Peter Straub (now residing in Morris' former residence) comes across the bounty. All seems to be going smoothly until Morris is released from jail and begins a search for the missing manuscripts.
I really enjoyed the story and characters. My only complaint is that the last chapters seemed to rush to the climax. A great series and I hope that King writes more like this.
Reading Stephen King for me is like visiting with an old friend. We reminiscence, we laugh, and we have a great time together. 'Finders Keepers' was that kind of experience again. The sequel to 'Mr.
Mercedes' was satisfying on a couple of fronts in that familiar characters, Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson all return, but intriguing in that the novel is strong enough to have its own legs without having to rely on the first story. In this novel, a crazed fan (Morris Bellamy) breaks into the home of his favorite author, John Rothstein, to let him know how bitter he's become over the changes he's made in Bellamy's favorite literary character, Jimmy Gold.
Rothstein (King's fictitious amalgam of what many critics feel is John Updike, Philip Roth, and J.D. Salinger) states he could care less what Bellamy thinks, nor does he intend to change or add anything to the Jimmy Gold series. What happens next sets in motion a page turner that covers a number of years while introducing a great character, Pete Saubers, into an evolving plot. Hodges and crew enter the picture near the first third of the book and become ingrained in the story from that point on. King fans will be more than satisfied with the wonderful storytelling and the usual great character development. I'm glad I invited my old friend back into my life and enjoyed reminiscing with him in 'Finders Keepers'. In FINDERS KEEPERS, Stephen King returns to one of his old themes.
In his book MISERY, a character was obsessed with a certain author's books, and here King repeats that theme. As a young man, Morris commits a crime because of his dissatisfaction with the way that certain author, John Rothstein, has ended his book series. Morris then buries a trunk full of notebooks containing Rothstein's stories, poems, even novels that no one has read yet.
The idea is that Morris would come back for them later; the notebooks would stay there waiting for him. Thirty-plus years later Pete, who coincidentally also loves Rothstein's novels, unearths that trunk. Pete has also found lots of trouble. Now come Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson, three of the characters from King's MR. MERCEDES, to the rescue.
This second book in King's MR. MERCEDES trilogy is delightful.
At the same time, though, although FINDERS KEEPERS does allude to the MR. MERCEDES killings throughout, King takes a little too long to have the Hodges trio enter the story. But that is just my opinion, and you may find no problem at all. King is great, and it's hard to criticize anything he writes.
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