By the time Bellamy is paroled in 2014, Pete Saubers, a high school student who’s something of a Rothstein aficionado himself, has excavated the trunk, sent the money in anonymously labeled parcels to his financially strapped parents, and stashed the notebooks for a possible sale on the proverbial rainy day-whose somewhat premature arrival comes, alas, at roughly the same time Bellamy appears in the Sauberses' life. Bellamy buries a trunk with the money and notebooks for safekeeping, but a 35-year prison hitch interrupts his plans. Yet along with the cash Bellamy collects during his crime are several notebooks comprising a rough draft for a fourth installment suggesting an outcome for Gold that Bellamy finds potentially more satisfying. The loony in this particular joint is a pale, red-lipped sociopath named Morris Bellamy, who, in 1978, robs and murders his favorite novelist, John Rothstein, because he can't forgive him for making his lead character, Jimmy Gold, go into advertising in the last published installment of his epic trilogy. Mercedes (2014) have some bad juju in their collective future that may make the case here look like a relative afternoon at the mall.Īs in Misery and The Shining, King swan dives into the looniness lurking at both ends of the writer-reader transaction. There are suggestions throughout this second installment of a planned trilogy that King’s motley, appealing trio of detectives from Mr.
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