![]() ![]() ![]() Just over 40 pages in, we've already learned that this paradigm of German engineering did its lethal work because it was driven by a psychopath: the seemingly innocuous and 30ish Brady Hartsfield, who'd stolen the car before embarking on his joy ride from hell. Shortly after King's novel begins in the predawn hours of a foggy April day, this 12-cylinder beast mows through a crowd of unemployed workers lining up in the dark for a job fair.īut unlike its predecessors, this King car isn't a supernatural creature with a mind of its own, any more than this novel is a classic whodunit. Cain and Raymond Chandler - the killing machine is a Mercedes-Benz SL500. Mercedes " - an homage to hard-boiled crime fiction that expressly invokes James M. In the terrific "From a Buick 8" (2002), something resembling a Roadmaster tempts highway patrol officers - and readers - to take a one-way journey into King's sprawling "Dark Tower" series. ![]() In "Christine" (1983), a Plymouth Fury becomes a jealous and murderous lover. Stephen King has always had a thing with cars. ![]()
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