Babineau’s experimental therapy – has regained control of his mind, if not of his body, and shown some telekinetic abilities that allow him to set in motion a chain of terrifying events, including the ability to seize control of other people’s minds through an apparently inoffensive game console.
But Brady – either thanks to some unforeseeable recuperative powers, or to seedy Dr. It’s possible, as I surmised in my review of the previous installment, that King himself might have felt the need to go back to his narrative roots, because toward the end of Finders Keepers he prepared the ground for this return.īrady Hartsfield, the deranged individual also known as the Mercedes Killer, has languished in a mental hospital for several years, reduced to a catatonic state by a traumatic head injury inflicted by Holly Gibney – Bill Hodges’ assistant – to stop him from detonating a bomb in a crowded auditorium.
the supernatural element for which this author is famous. He marvels at how far Brady has come.While I enjoyed the two previous books in this series, where Stephen King explores the terrain of crime fiction rather than his trademark horror, I did feel that something was missing – i.e. Babineau insists she accompany him on rounds, and Brady is his star patient. Only this morning she was forced to go in there, because Dr. But on this early January after – noon, just as Hodges and Holly are finishing their lunch, she is drawn down to Room 217 as if by an invisible cable. The kind of thing that, were it discovered, might result in her being the one fired. She stays away for another reason, too: she doesn’t entirely trust herself when she’s in his room. Mostly she stays away and lets other staff members deal with him, because just seeing him often infuses her with a daylong rage that the system should be so easily gamed by this vile creature. Avoiding the punishment he so richly deserves. It isn’t because she had a friend or relative who was hurt or killed at City Center it’s because she thinks he’s shamming. There is, however, one long-term patient in the Bucket whom she hates.
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