He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the 'perk' and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy. In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime.
Eight people are killed fifteen are wounded.
Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.