Mr. Mercedes

WINNER of the EDGAR AWARD for BEST NOVEL and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from murdering thousands. "Mr. Mercedes is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can write in whatever genre he chooses" (The Washington Post).

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. Stephen King takes off on a "nerve-shredding, pulse-pounding race against time" (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) with this acclaimed #1 bestselling thriller.

Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 06/03/2014
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781476754451

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 21
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 169715 / Mr. Mercedes


Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2014 pg. 70
Entertainment Weekly 01/17/2014 pg. 47
Publishers Weekly 04/07/2014
Booklist 04/15/2014 pg. 19
Library Journal 05/15/2014 pg. 72
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2014
Entertainment Weekly 05/16/2014 pg. 42
Shelf Awareness 06/03/2014
New York Times Book Review 06/08/2014 pg. 18
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 28
Library Journal 05/15/2015 pg. 74
Library Journal 01/01/2014

About the Author
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch, the short story collection You Like It Darker (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, 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 a television series streaming on Peacock). 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, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 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.