This particular point (Hartsfield’s failed ambitions as an high tech genius), takes center stage in this third volume as the supposedly brain damaged killer sets up a deathly trap to kill more and get his revenge on Hodges by using seemingly inoffensive outdated video game consoles. Though a mere parallel can be drawn between Brady Hartsfield, aka The Mercedes Killer and Harris‘ notorious serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the sense that they are both masterminds, their respective personnalities are way different, the forensic psychiatrist with a cannibalistic habit being more refined and pragmatic than the failed high tech devisor the Mercedes Killer always was. King dedicates End of Watch to Thomas Harris, one of the crime novel masters, and readers will be able to find Harris’ influence and few references to his novels throughout the book.

A Stephen King novel with an old fashioned spin After a breathtaking second tome, Finders Keepers (read our review in French here), which presented itself as a mix of crime and suspense novel spanning three different periods of time and paying homage to american literature in a Misery or even Hearts in Atlantis kind of way, the master of horror brings Hodges’ adventures to an end with a story with clear supernatural overtones. The third and final volume of Stephen King‘s trilogy featuring retired-cop-turned-private-eye Bill Hodges, End of Watch, was published in the UK on the 7th June 2016 by Hodder & Stoughton.

Philosophies, psychologie et spiritualités.

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