I must admit that to get to this third part I have skipped the second. But that's the way the readings are, they come as they come. Although there might really be another motivation behind it. And it is that when i read mr mercedes I had a certain uncomfortable aftertaste. Surely it would be because when one has read much of the work of Stephen King he always expects masterpieces, and Mr Mercedes did not seem to me to be on a par with previous ones. Which I also find interesting because it makes Stephen King in human, with its imperfections 🙂
However, come to this sequel, with the jump of the indicated intermediate novel Whoever loses pays, I find more sense to that kind of reserve in which Mr Mercedes moved. The good thing is always better to leave it for the end, of a lifetime.
Bill Hodges is no longer that recovered investigator for the cause since his traumatic retirement from the police force. With the passage of time addressed in the saga, he supports on his shoulders and on his conscience everything bad that happened, all the pain ruminated by unbearable losses.
So, in the face of our diminished hero, the idea that his antagonist from the series Brady Hartsfield acquires a special strength, obtained in that kind of lethargy in the Hospital where he fell into a coma, sometimes becomes devastating for him. good about Hodges. Because he will be your main target.
Most disturbing of all is how Brady manages to return to the scene by remaining bedridden. And it is that, turned into a guinea pig on which to proceed with certain very special drugs, our dark antagonist accesses infinite possibilities with which to proceed to his revenge, first resuming his communication with a bewildered Bill Hodges.
Brady knew how to drive anyone to insanity and suicide. His forms of harassment seen in the first part acquire in this final sequel a much more sinister air, thus recovering the spirit of other works by the master on the supernatural and its pernicious effects ...
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