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"'Wake up, genius.' So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, a Salinger-like icon who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.
Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he's released from prison after thirty-five years.
Not since Misery has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life - for good, for bad, forever."
9 comments
ravenheart
30 Aug 17#9
That's actually dropped a little since I commented, then. It was £4.98 this morning.
faustino
30 Aug 17#8
Yup, £4.80.
ravenheart
30 Aug 17#7
Amazon doing their usual creep the price up each time someone buys it thing, I see.
hadouken888
29 Aug 17#6
£4.31 prime
PhilK
29 Aug 17#5
Good follow up to Mr Mercedes. Actually a better book all round. Read it a year ago, out of sync before Mr Mercedes. Theres another one out since this, and linked and Mr Mercedes and this book = "End of watch"
rd3d2
29 Aug 17#4
£3.90 but still went for it :-)
adsham
29 Aug 17#3
Great, thanks - enjoyed Mr Mercedes so looking forward to reading this!
ukbootlegs2015
29 Aug 17#2
I am not a fan of King books, but I did enjoy this one.
Opening post
"'Wake up, genius.' So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, a Salinger-like icon who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.
Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he's released from prison after thirty-five years.
Not since Misery has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life - for good, for bad, forever."
9 comments
Read it a year ago, out of sync before Mr Mercedes.
Theres another one out since this, and linked and Mr Mercedes and this book = "End of watch"
I'd recommend it to folks.