End Of Watch EXPORT

Avoir le dernier Stephen King livré à domicile, en version originale, et bon marché ( moins de 10 €) avant même sa parution en France, est un privilège que j'ai bien apprécié. Merci Amazon ! Livré rapidement dans un bon emballage, j'ai pu commencer la lecture deux ou trois jours après la commande. Seul petit reproche : les caractères sont un peu petits et moins confortables que la version brochée française 3 fois plus chère.

Now running a detective agency along with his side-kick Holly Gibney, ex-detective Bill Hodges is intrigued to learn that the letter Z has been written at the scene of the crime. Hodges discovers the evidence suggests the culprit to be Brady Hartsfield, the notorious ‘Mercedes Killer’. But with Hartsfield lying in a hospital bed in intensive care, how can he be responsible? This is the third book in the Bill Hodges Trilogy, also featuring Holly Gibney. The book picks up the story from book 1 (Mr Mercedes) which left killer Brady Hartsfield in a critical condition and – hopefully – out of the picture for good. But with Doctor Babineau administering new and untested drugs to his unresponsive patient, Hartsfield begins to react – but not in the way Babineau expected. This book had me hooked from the first page and King’s ability to ramp up the tension is as good as ever. His characters are well rounded and always believable, even when they’re doing really weird stuff. The final section is particularly riveting, as Bill and Holly move in on the killer. An exciting and entertaining read.

Amazing!

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Warning: Spoilers for Mr. Mercedes. Story In the aftermath of Mr. Mercedes, Bill Hodges has been busy. After he solved the Peter Sauber's case in Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges #2) he is clutching to his detective agency -pushing 70- and holding onto it. One day, he gets a call from his old friend Pete calling for aid, saying that there has been a murder. After visiting the crime scene, Hodge’s thoughts turns immediately to Brady Hartsfield (the prick who tried to blow up an auditorium full of screaming kids). Somehow, he knows Brady is involved with this horrendous crime but can’t bring his head around to it. Bill’s assistance Holly thinks that he is paranoid because he still seems obsessive over Brady -the fish he never caught- and ever since he stopped visiting him at the hospital, his thoughts turns towards him now and then. Brady had been busy too. Ever since Holly smashed his skull with Bill’s Happy Slapper (balls in a sock), he was in a coma. After he had waked up, he found himself paralyzed, but he did get a particular set of uncanny abilities, the same abilities that had disastrous repercussions in King’s first novel Carrie. The band (Bill, Holly, and Jerome) is back together for one final ride. Is anyone safe? My Thoughts End of Watch has a masterfully constructed prologue. King’s ability to suck you in his world, and forming an addictive page turner is apparent in this story. The exposition is carefully placed, and there are no unnecessary scenes. King’s focus is eminent from the beginning, and it is present till the end; it does have an uninteresting side story, but it doesn’t consume the novel. When I read the synopsis, my desire was only one. The novel should have a convincing and logical way to give Brady the powers he possesses. This is not a supernatural story, so giving him those powers by any unnatural means would have been a compromise to this trilogy and more to the crime thriller genre, and to my surprise, King delivers a disturbing yet believable theory which resuscitates Brady. The pacing of End of Watch is perfect. Stephen slowly yet deliberately builds the scenes. He doesn’t jump on the finale train and tries to cram the readers with everything he could muster. The story has a purpose, and that purpose is to unsettle the readers. Brady is deranged, we know that, but how far will he go exact revenge? Very far, very very far. One hitch I have with the story is the climax. The ultimate battle between Bill Hodges and Brady Hartsfield. It was over too quickly and the small thrill that captured me: the amusement that kept me turning the pages hoping it’s going to be exciting; it was a disappointment. The face-off should have been exhilarating, but it ended with a weird and cringe-worthy fight. The prologue is something I wasn’t expecting, but it is a satisfying and fulfilling ending. Characters As I said in my Finders Keepers review, King creates a good, bad guy. Brady Hartsfield's intentions are something bigger, bigger than exploding an auditorium. In End of Watch, he goes for something humongous. After waking up from a coma, Brady finds himself in a vegetative state, unable to move or conduct any activity, and it is a sad scenario where I felt unwanted affection towards him. A nurse squeezing his nuts and Bill’s constant mental torture are some disturbing visions. I know I should feel good, he is the villain, but as I said, he is a good, bad guy; King somehow turned this evil character into a helpless sympathetic jerk; this made his actions seem much more drastic and sensible than I would have liked (he is bad after-all). As for the other characters, Bill, Jerome, Holly, Pete, and some side characters have a presence that you feel, but I was never attached to any of these characters. I don’t hate them, but I don’t root for them either, and it remains unchanged in this novel. Those characters don’t have to wave their hands and scream, “I’m in this too, notice me. NOTICE ME!” You know they are present, but they are not enticing. There was an unintentional connection with Bill Hodges. I didn’t root for him but wanted him to succeed, and the finale turned out to be more emotional than I thought. Should You Read End of Watch? Yes. King’s tremendous ability to transform a simple idea into an act of horror is evident throughout the novel. He takes a common element and makes it... disturbing. Without spoiling anything let me tell you this, I wouldn’t look at fishing games the same way. End of Watch is thrilling, even it may not have a nail-biting finale: Stephen King’s writing and the disturbing character of Brady turns this average novel into a dreadful and sad tale about two people’s obsession with each other. This novel is a worthy end to its watch.