Mr. Mercedes / King, Stephen

After a driver runs over a crowd of unemployed people at a job fair, killing eight and wounding fifteen, a retired cop named Bill Hodges decides to come out of retirement to prevent the killer from striking again.

Months after a driver plows through the masses lined up at a job fair in a stolen Mercedes, killing eight and wounding fifteen before escaping, retired cop Bill Hodges is haunted by the unsolved crime. When he receives a letter from someone claiming to be the perpetrator and promising a deadlier attack, Hodges becomes determined to prevent another tragedy.