Bill is in a lot of pain and disinclined to hear the diagnosis his doctor is urgently asking him to schedule an appointment for, and Holly is as socially awkward as ever. They’ll march off the edge of life like stampeding buffalo going over a cliff.”īut Bill and Holly, and their two-person investigative firm Finders Keepers, are standing in his way. “At first it will be just the ones who were closest to doing it anyway, but they will lead by example and there will be many more. Through means reminiscent of Gillian Cross’s 1980s children’s book The Prime Minister’s Brain, in which the Demon Headmaster sets out to take over the mind of the prime minister with the use of a hypnotising computer game, Brady engineers a mass suicide. The man was a murderous degenerate who was never going to wake up, anyway” – and they’ve been having unexpectedly telekinetic side effects.īrady, now very much awake, also discovers they will allow him to influence the actions of those around them – turn them into his “very own organic wheelchair” – and from his hospital bed he weaves together the strands of his most sinister plot yet. A doctor has been giving Hartsfield experimental drugs – “there was no downside as long as he kept the results to himself until human trials were okayed. But staff at the hospital report strange occurrences around him and Hodges is convinced there is more to his old enemy than Brady’s blank stare suggests.īy End of Watch, the trilogy’s conclusion, the hints of weirdness that King has sprinkled through Finders Keepers have blossomed, Brady’s supernatural abilities are in full flow and King has turned a series that started out as a straight hard-boiled detective story into the horror he is better known for.

He is in a vegetative state throughout Mister Mercedes’ follow-up, Finders Keepers. Hodges’s partner, Holly Gibney, a “bundle of nervous tics and strange associations”, subsequently socked Brady in the skull in order to prevent him from blowing up 2,000 children.

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