Finders Keepers - Bill Hodges, Bk 2 Author:Stephen King 1978: Meet Morris Bellamy, a reader obsessed by novelist John Rothstein, the Salinger-like icon who once created the famous celebrated fictional character Jimmy Gold, and hasn't released anything since. “Wake up, genius.” So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to the reclusive author John Rothstein. Morris is ... more »livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sell out for a career in advertising. Morris kills his idol and empties his safe of cash, but the real haul is a collection of notebooks containing John Rothstein's unpublished work... including at least one more Jimmy Gold novel. Morris hides everything away before being locked up for another horrific crime.
2009: Meet teenager Pete Saubers, whose father was brutally injured by a stolen Mercedes while he was queuing at a job fair. When Pete discovers a buried trunk containing the money and notebooks, he realises he has the means to rescue his family from poverty. If he can keep it secret…
2014: Morris is up for parole. And when he's released from prison after more than thirty-five years, he’s hell-bent on recovering his treasure. That’s when retired detective Bill Hodges, who has set up a company called ‘Finders Keepers’, is asked to investigate. Together with colleagues Holly Gibney and Jerome Robinson, Hodges must rescue young Pete and his family from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris...
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.« less