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In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. 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. The killer escapes. 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. Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of highly unlikely allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Bradys next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands. Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.

1922 : un fermier du Nebraska confesse qu’il a assassiné son épouse, avec l’aide de son fi ls de 14 ans. Grand chauffeur : une femme écrivain, violée et laissée pour morte au bord d’une route, décide

A spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about addiction, religion, music and what might exist on the other side of life.In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity.Decades later, Jamie is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll. Now an addict, he sees Jacobs again - a showman on stage, creating dazzling ''portraits in lightning'' - and their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil''s devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It''s a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Imaginez que vous puissiez remonter le temps, changer le cours de l''Histoire. Le 22 novembre 1963, le président Kennedy était assassiné à Dallas. À moins que... Jake Epping, professeur d''anglais à

Après une rupture sentimentale, Devin Jones, 21 ans, débarque l'été 1973 à Joyland, petit parc d'attraction sur le littoral de la Caroline du Nord. Il est embauché avec d'autres étudiants pour complé

Stephen King nació el 21 de septiembre de 1947 en Portland en el estado de Maine (Estados Unidos). Ganó una beca para ir a la universidad de Maine donde se licenció en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa en 1970. Se caso un año mas tarde con Tabitha Spruce. Mient

Stephen King nació el 21 de septiembre de 1947 en Portland en el estado de Maine (Estados Unidos). Ganó una beca para ir a la universidad de Maine donde se licenció en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa en 1970. Se caso un año mas tarde con Tabitha Spruce. Mient

A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too fara book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes.Wake up, genius. So begins Kings instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasnt published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when hes released from prison after thirty-five years.Not since Misery has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a lifefor good, for bad, forever.

Mr MERCEDES es la historia de una guerra entre el Bien y el Mal. Un retrato inolvidable de la mente de un asesino obsesionado y demente.apertura de la oficina de empleo para reclamar uno de los mil puestos de trabajo que se han anunci ado. Han hecho cola durante toda la noche.De pronto, invisible hasta que lo tienen practicamente encima, un Mercedes surge de la fria niebla de la madrugada.

En una cabaña aislada, desnuda y esposada a la cabecera de la cama, Jessie asiste inerme al macabro desenlace del juego erótico de Gerald, el hombre con quien ha convivido durante veinte años y que esta tendido en el suelo junto al lecho. Acuciada por el hambre y la sed, asediada por los fantasmas del pasado, adquiere conciencia de que la realidad es mas pavorosa que la peor de sus pesadillas.

Il a suffi de quelques jours au charismatique révérend Charles Jacobs pour ensorceler les habitants de Harlow, dans le Maine. Et plus que tout autre, le petit Jamie. Car l''homme et l''enfant ont une passion commune : l''electricite.Trente ans plus tard, Jamie est un guitariste de rock ronge par l''alcool et la drogue. Il va croiser a nouveau le chemin de Jacobs, et decouvrir que le mot renaissance peut avoir plus dun sens.Addiction, fanatisme, experimentations scientifiques... Un roman electrique sur ce qui se cache de l''autre cote du miroir. Hommage a Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne et Lovecraft, un King d''anthologie.

Acclaimed author Stephen King s #1 bestselling time-travel novel soon to be a limited series on Hulu! In Stephen King s most ambitious and accomplished (NPR) and extraordinary ("USA TODAY") #1 "New York Times "bestselling novel, time travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying. Dallas, 11/22/63: Three shots ring out. President John F. Kennedy is dead. Life can turn on a dime or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father s sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake s friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner s storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten and become heart-stoppingly suspenseful."

A master storyteller at his bestthe O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story.Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. Afterlife is about a man who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Other stories address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powersthe columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in Obits; the old judge in The Dune who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, the names of people who then died in freak accidents. In Morality, King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devils pact they can win.Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of Kings finest gifts to his constant readerI made them especially for you, says King. Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.

A spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about addiction, religion, music and what might exist on the other side of life.In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity.Decades later, Jamie is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll. Now an addict, he sees Jacobs again - a showman on stage, creating dazzling ''portraits in lightning'' - and their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil''s devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It''s a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

A 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....

Un thriller fascinante sobre un lector cuya obsesión con un escritor solitario va demasiado lejos, con el mismo trío de héroes inverosímiles y exitosos King, presentados en MR MERCEDES