--- product_id: 1303245 title: "Mr. Mercedes: A Novel" price: "SAR 11" currency: SAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/1303245-mr-mercedes-a-novel store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # Mr. Mercedes: A Novel **Price:** SAR 11 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Mr. Mercedes: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** SAR 11 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/1303245-mr-mercedes-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description WINNER of the EDGAR AWARD for BEST NOVEL and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from murdering thousands. “ Mr. Mercedes is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can write in whatever genre he chooses” ( The Washington Post ). The stolen Mercedes emerges from the pre-dawn fog and plows through a crowd of men and women on line for a job fair in a distressed American city. Then the lone driver backs up, charges again, and speeds off, leaving eight dead and more wounded. The case goes unsolved and ex-cop Bill Hodges is out of hope when he gets a letter from a man who loved the feel of death under the Mercedes’s wheels… Brady Hartsfield wants that rush again, but this time he’s going big, with an attack that would take down thousands—unless Hodges and two new unusual allies he picks up along the way can throw a wrench in Hartsfield’s diabolical plans. Stephen King takes off on a “nerve-shredding, pulse-pounding race against time” ( Fort Worth Star-Telegram ) with this acclaimed #1 bestselling thriller. Review: Great read - Like just about every Stephen King book I've read, this book is brilliant. It kept me on toes the whole time. Review: THE MASTER LOOKS TO THE EAST, AND LIKES WHAT HE SEES!!!!! - To write this review in a way that gives this book (and its competitors) a fair reading, I need to ignore the fact that Mr King has already published close to 60 world wide best selling novels and that he is one of the biggest selling novelists the world has ever seen. I also need to ignore the fact that he has penned some of the finest supernatural and alternative fantasy stories ever published and that some of his works are at times close to beautiful, moving, pure, literature. So now I can treat this new release as a single, standalone novel and I will pretend that I have never heard of Stephen King. So I sit down, turn on my glorious Kindle DX and I commence reading. The story starts like this... Augie Odenkirk is unemployed, single, with no dependants, but also no short term career prospects. He meets a single mom desperate for work at a small town exposition promoting local employment. Within a scattering of pages and a few hundred words, the reader finds themselves compelled to learn more of these two innocents, struggling daily against the economic forces - and that of fate itself - which have taken such a cruel toll on their lives. And to wish them well. Of course, some of us may want them to find happiness and ride off together into their own sunset. Waiting in line in the pre-dawn darkness, however, they are met and destroyed by the modern day face of evil. The reader is already attached to the characters in question - the trilogy of victims we are introduced to are all so beautifully drawn and created by Mr King that within a handful of pages you are shocked and almost moved to tears by the drama that unfolds before your eyes. We subsequently meet the hero of the tale - Retired Detective Hodges. On a superficial level it is easy to imagine flaws in the book where none exist. The good guys are obvious and the bad guy is, too. One can't call this book a mystery, its more of a totally modern techno thriller update on the eternal battle between good and evil. Mr King's legion of Constant Readers will be very familiar (and comfortable) with this theme. Emotional attachment has always been a strong point of Mr King and this book is no exception. The bad guy is despicably bad and the good guy is so human (ie: flawed) that he is in our hearts by the end of part one. As the story progresses, we get to know the book's characters even more closely and we see the huge mistake Brady has made by taking on Hodges. The plot and pacing are perfect. Mr King has always left traces of addictive caffeine scattered across his pages so that it is almost impossible to stop reading until he says it's ok to stop reading, and this latest thriller is no exception. The suspense builds chapter by chapter. With the increased awareness the reader has of uber-sicko Brady Hartsfield, the more terrified they will become of what his plans for impending chaos he has in store. On a personal level, it appears that he lacks social, moral and even ethical boundaries, which makes him a very dangerous individual. Ret. Det. Hodges, if only you knew what you are up against. But the hero of this tale is retired, as we know. His only child is a fully grown and mature woman. His wife is dead. Being involved in this case again - albeit unofficially - has given his life some direction. One wonders even at an early stage of the book, how the story will end, and who will survive. Selfishly, one hopes for Hodges to live to fight another day, at least for the reason that Mr King will have to give us at least one more book!!!!! The ending to this new age techno thriller is fine. It leaves the reader wanting more, with the potential for a sequel featuring at least one of the charscters. Mr King led the reader a merry dance before the final page, so we were never sure what was going to happen. My heart was in my chest at least once during the final stanza and i am glad that my fears and assumptions were wrong. So once more, the world owes Mr King a huge thank you for providing another strong example of his story telling abilities. The only complaint i have is that there was no mention of his Constant Readers in his afterword. BFN Greggorio!!!!! ## Images ![Mr. Mercedes: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91FenrCsVxL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great read *by C***Y on June 23, 2026* Like just about every Stephen King book I've read, this book is brilliant. It kept me on toes the whole time. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE MASTER LOOKS TO THE EAST, AND LIKES WHAT HE SEES!!!!! *by G***! on June 5, 2014* To write this review in a way that gives this book (and its competitors) a fair reading, I need to ignore the fact that Mr King has already published close to 60 world wide best selling novels and that he is one of the biggest selling novelists the world has ever seen. I also need to ignore the fact that he has penned some of the finest supernatural and alternative fantasy stories ever published and that some of his works are at times close to beautiful, moving, pure, literature. So now I can treat this new release as a single, standalone novel and I will pretend that I have never heard of Stephen King. So I sit down, turn on my glorious Kindle DX and I commence reading. The story starts like this... Augie Odenkirk is unemployed, single, with no dependants, but also no short term career prospects. He meets a single mom desperate for work at a small town exposition promoting local employment. Within a scattering of pages and a few hundred words, the reader finds themselves compelled to learn more of these two innocents, struggling daily against the economic forces - and that of fate itself - which have taken such a cruel toll on their lives. And to wish them well. Of course, some of us may want them to find happiness and ride off together into their own sunset. Waiting in line in the pre-dawn darkness, however, they are met and destroyed by the modern day face of evil. The reader is already attached to the characters in question - the trilogy of victims we are introduced to are all so beautifully drawn and created by Mr King that within a handful of pages you are shocked and almost moved to tears by the drama that unfolds before your eyes. We subsequently meet the hero of the tale - Retired Detective Hodges. On a superficial level it is easy to imagine flaws in the book where none exist. The good guys are obvious and the bad guy is, too. One can't call this book a mystery, its more of a totally modern techno thriller update on the eternal battle between good and evil. Mr King's legion of Constant Readers will be very familiar (and comfortable) with this theme. Emotional attachment has always been a strong point of Mr King and this book is no exception. The bad guy is despicably bad and the good guy is so human (ie: flawed) that he is in our hearts by the end of part one. As the story progresses, we get to know the book's characters even more closely and we see the huge mistake Brady has made by taking on Hodges. The plot and pacing are perfect. Mr King has always left traces of addictive caffeine scattered across his pages so that it is almost impossible to stop reading until he says it's ok to stop reading, and this latest thriller is no exception. The suspense builds chapter by chapter. With the increased awareness the reader has of uber-sicko Brady Hartsfield, the more terrified they will become of what his plans for impending chaos he has in store. On a personal level, it appears that he lacks social, moral and even ethical boundaries, which makes him a very dangerous individual. Ret. Det. Hodges, if only you knew what you are up against. But the hero of this tale is retired, as we know. His only child is a fully grown and mature woman. His wife is dead. Being involved in this case again - albeit unofficially - has given his life some direction. One wonders even at an early stage of the book, how the story will end, and who will survive. Selfishly, one hopes for Hodges to live to fight another day, at least for the reason that Mr King will have to give us at least one more book!!!!! The ending to this new age techno thriller is fine. It leaves the reader wanting more, with the potential for a sequel featuring at least one of the charscters. Mr King led the reader a merry dance before the final page, so we were never sure what was going to happen. My heart was in my chest at least once during the final stanza and i am glad that my fears and assumptions were wrong. So once more, the world owes Mr King a huge thank you for providing another strong example of his story telling abilities. The only complaint i have is that there was no mention of his Constant Readers in his afterword. BFN Greggorio!!!!! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Nice Change of Pace *by M***S on July 6, 2014* King has dominated the Horror and Supernatural genres for more than forty years. And while this is his stock-in-trade, he has written some outstanding stories outside of these realms, like Shawshank Redemption (which happens to be one of my all-time favorites), The Colorado Kid, Joyland, and Dolores Claiborne, just to name few. But this is his first attempt at a trilogy outside of his normal yarns, a true detective noir. A Detective Bill Hodges trilogy: Book 1 (Mr. Mercedes), Book 2 (Finders Keepers), which I understand brings back characters Bill Hodges, Jerome and Holly, and Book 3 (Untitled). I enjoyed this book because it wasn't his typical spin. This is a true mystery-thriller, race-against-time, suspense crime novel. Retired Detective Bill Hodges has commendations up the wazoo (but as he humbly states, "Luck really is a big part of it."), but now, unfortunately, spends most of his time sitting in his La-Z-Boy recliner, drinking beer, watching daytime television, getting fat, his trusty S&W M&P at his side, having suicidal thoughts. One day while going through his mail, he comes across a letter without a return address. In it's place is an email emoticon of a Smiley wearing dark glasses and showing it's teeth. He opens it, reads it. It's signed Very Truly Yours, The Mercedes Killer. Shocked, he just sits there. Mr. Mercedes, the one that got away. The letter was intended to encourage Bill to place the barrel of his M&P in his mouth and pull the trigger. But the opposite happens: Bill is galvanized into action, determined to catch the killer that got away. As usual, King's ability to carve out such realistic characters is amazing. His attention to detail is far from the lackluster characters that dominate today's fiction. King is the last of a dying and talented breed of raconteurs. I really get aggravated when people (those that I would bet dollars to donuts have either read none or just a couple of his works) stereotype King as a gruesome horror writer. Yes, he touches on some very uncomfortable subjects, not pulling any punches, particularly when it comes to racism and certain socially forbidden slurs--not that King is racist, only that he is completely honest when telling a story. So, in my opinion, Stephen King is a great storyteller because he does touch on the uncomfortable taboos of life. 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