After last year’s taut thriller Mr. Mercedes, Stephen
King returns with its sequel as the unlikely team of ex-policeman Bill Hodges,
Jerome Robinson and Holly Gibney tried to make sense of the City Center
Massacre and also save the life of Pete Saubers from the clutches of a
near-deranged Morris Bellamy. While the main thread of the story revolves
around Pete and Bellamy, it also delves deep into the plot of Mr. Mercedes and
the massacre which took the lives of eight innocent people, maimed three, seriously
injured twelve and caused minor injuries to seventeen others.
Finders Keepers by Stephen King begins in the year 1978
with the murder of a novelist at his New Hampshire cabin by a die-hard admirer.
The cloistered eighty-year-old novelist John Rothstein found himself awake when
the privacy of his cabin was invaded by an obsessed fan Morris Bellamy and two
accomplices. Not content with the cash available, Bellamy wants to make sure if
the rumoured sell-out of his favorite character Jimmy Gold in the next
Rothstein novel is true, and the ensuing melee proved disastrous.
Bellamy’s plans unravelled when he was arrested and sent
to prison for thirty-five years, but not before he stashed the loot away. A
high school student Pete Saubers, whose father Thomas Saubers was seriously
injured in Mr. Mercedes, found the buried treasure and sent the money to his
parents concealing his real identity while keeping the drafts of Rothstein’s
novels. All hell break loose when Bellamy is released on parole in 2014 and discovered
his treasures missing. It is upto King’s likeable trio - Bill Hodges, Jerome
Robinson and Holly Gibney, to keep Pete from harm’s way and protect his family.
Finders Keepers by Stephen King is an ambitious and
well-crafted hard-boiled thriller which can be read as a stand-alone though it
is the middle book of a trilogy. Its masterful pacing and riveting plotting
makes it a heart thumping read, intensely thrilling and absolutely gripping.
Author Stephen King as is his wont, delivers a novel that has stunned me by its
shrewdness and ability to sustain interest.
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