![]() ![]() The case, led by Detective Bill Hodges, is never solved and months later Hodges retires to spend his days home alone, watching TV, getting fatter and contemplating suicide. The book opens with Hartsfield in the stolen car, wearing a clown mask and rubber gloves, mowing down a crowd of unemployed jobseekers at a job fair, killing eight people and injuring many more. ![]() ![]() In terms of evil cars and Stephen King, Christine will assuredly be the one that comes to the mind for most people not so for me. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. In Mr Mercedes the handsome grey machine becomes a lethal weapon, but since this is a cop thriller - King’s first - the car is firmly in the control of a straightforwardly nasty psychopath called Brady Hartsfield. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. There was Christine, which he wrote in 1983, a story about a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury possessed by evil spirits, and then From a Buick 8, about a vintage car which wasn’t actually a car at all but a portal into another universe. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĮVEN before Stephen King was knocked down and almost killed by a minivan in 1999 while walking along a road in Maine, menacing cars were a theme in his work. ![]()
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