01556cam a2200301 i 4500 161765628 TxAuBib 20140610120000.0 131213s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013046172 9781476754451 hbk. 1476754454 hbk. TxAuBib rda King, Stephen, 1947- Mr. Mercedes [HC] : a novel / Stephen King. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2014. 437 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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"-- Provided by publisher. 20140610. Mercedes automobile Fiction. Serial murderers Fiction. Horror fiction. Suspense fiction.