On the back of a forgettable follow-up to one of the finest fantastical fictions he’s written, Stephen King delivers a straight serial killer story with a difference of no small significance: in Mr Mercedes , one of our two main characters is the murderer. The other? His next victim, naturally.
The killing starts in the darkness of a day in April, several years before the events documented in the rest of the text. A job fair is to take place at the local auditorium, and the most motivated folks have been waiting at the gates for ages. They say the early bird catches the worm—some of these birds won’t last much longer without one—so when a big gray Mercedes rolls up around sunrise, they think it must be the Mayor, come to commend them for their dedication.
It isn’t. It’s the last thing a lot of the jobseekers will see.
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