Mr Mercedes used an elegantly fancy and iconic Mercedes-Benz and literally drove straight towards the people who were standing in line for hours to get a spot at the job fair.
As the title suggests, the villain of the story is knows as Mr Mercedes who earned this nickname due to a murderous attack that took place during the early hours of the dawn costing eight people their lives. In his thriller novel Mr Mercedes, Stephen King once again plays with a theme that holds a fundamental role amongst his works for decades: good vs evil. The question is who is the cat and who the mouse, and as Hodges comes closer and closer to finding Mr Mercedes, catching his soon becomes not only necessary but crucial. Even though he is retired and, as a result, not supposed to work on cases anymore, he simply cannot help himself falling into a chase between cat and mouse. When one of his old, unsolved cases, Mr Mercedes who ran over people standing in line at a job fair, sends Bill Hodges a letter, Hodges is awakened by his bleak and dismal routine and finds meaning in his life again. Recently retired detective Hodges has left the force with a few open cases and has been living deep in depression, daily contemplating suicide, for months.
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