The book received generally positive reviews. Brady uses the bodies of both a corrupt neurosurgeon and a hospital librarian as puppets and red herrings to do his dirty work and to misdirect the police while he makes his final move to destroy Hodges, all the while unaware that Hodges is already racing the clock against his own death. Brady's ultimate goal, however, is to lure Hodges into the game and exact revenge.

The targets are the very teenagers who escaped death when Brady's plan to destroy the concert venue failed. Once the users are in Brady's control, he uses the app to dominate their minds and persuade them to kill themselves. Still confined to his hospital bed, Brady has used his power to finish his murderous work by creating a hypnotic video game app that heightens the user's susceptibility. Meanwhile, all those who have gotten too close to proving this suspicion seem to have died by suicide.Īfter his head injury, Brady found himself gaining new abilities, including the power to move small objects with his mind and the ability to enter the bodies of certain people susceptible to his mental domination. However, many of the staff in the hospital where Brady now resides believe that he is recovering at an impossible rate, and that he may be faking his injuries to avoid facing charges for his crimes. Hodges and Holly thwarted Brady's plans and left the killer in a vegetative state from which he never regained consciousness. Mercedes who, six years ago, plotted to blow up a rock concert venue packed with teenagers. All the dead are connected by a common thread: each of them has, in the past, been in contact with mass murderer Brady Hartsfield, the notorious Mr. Given only months to live, he finds himself drawn into a recent spree of suicides.

Retired detective Bill Hodges, who now with his sidekick Holly runs the private investigation agency Finders Keepers, is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Mercedes, King announced that the novel's antagonist, Brady Hartsfield, would be making a return in this book. At the 2015 Edgar Awards, while accepting the award for Best Novel for Mr. On June 10, the new title End of Watch was announced. Francis College on Apunder the title The Suicide Prince. The book was first announced at an event at St. End of Watch is a crime novel by American writer Stephen King, the third volume of a trilogy focusing on Detective Bill Hodges, following Mr.

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