Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966.

King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.

After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Mercedes is a war between good and evil from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable. And they have no time to lose, because Brady's next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of eccentric and mismatched allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. When he gets a crazed letter from 'the perk,' claiming credit for the murders, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, fearing another even more diabolical attack and hell-bent on preventing it.īrady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. Months later, an ex-cop named Bill Hodges, still haunted by the unsolved crime, contemplates suicide. Eight people are killed fifteen are wounded. Emerging from the fog, invisible until it is too late, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. In the predawn hours, in a distressed American city, hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair.

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