Текст книги "Mr. Mercedes"

Автор книги: Stephen Edwin King

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AUTHOR’S NOTE

While there is indeed such a thing as ‘stealing the peek’ (as in PKE), it would be impossible to do so with any of the cars identified in the book, including the Mercedes-Benz SL500 made during the passive keyless entry age. SL500s, like all Benzes, are high-performance cars with high-performance security features.

Thanks are due to Russ Dorr and Dave Higgins, who provided research assistance. Also to my wife, Tabitha, who knows more about cell phones than I do, and to my son, the novelist Joe Hill, who helped me solve the problems Tabby pointed out. If I got it right, thank my support crew. If I got it wrong, chalk it up to my failure to understand.

Nan Graham of Scribner did her usual sterling editorial job, and my son Owen followed up with a valuable second pass. My agent, Chuck Verrill, is a Yankees fan, but I love him anyway.

Don’t miss REVIVAL by STEPHEN KING

available from Hodder & Stoughton from November, 2014

REVIVAL is a spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about addiction, religion, music and what might happen on the other side of life.

In a small New England town, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see the charismatic new minister, Charles Jacobs, who introduces him to simple experiments with electricity.

Decades later, wed to his guitar and addicted to drugs, Jamie sees showman Jacobs on stage – creating dazzling ‘portraits in lightning’. Jacobs rescues Jamie from his addiction. But for every cure there is a price. The price of the shocking after-effects …

This is a masterpiece from King in the great tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

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