{"id":22839,"date":"2025-05-31T15:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22839"},"modified":"2025-05-31T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:02:30","slug":"book-27-of-52-end-of-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/book-27-of-52-end-of-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 27 (of 52) &#8211; End Of Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22840\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/endofwatch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22840\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/endofwatch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/endofwatch.jpg 282w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/endofwatch-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">End of Watch &#8211; Stephen King<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Though physically incapacitated, Brady Hartsfield has developed telekinetic and mind-control abilities through experimental drugs and begins a new wave of terror by manipulating others into committing suicide, starting with the survivors of his attack at the Civic Center.\u00a0 The police, unable or unwilling to do their own investigation, turn a blind eye as retired detective Bill Hodges follows the leads.\u00a0 As the body count rises, Hodges, facing his own terminal diagnosis, and his partner Holly Gibney must stop Brady&#8217;s deadly influence before it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>The third and final installment of Stephen King\u2019s Bill Hodges Trilogy, <em>End of Watch<\/em>, which won the Goodreads Choice Award for favorite mystery and thriller back in 2016, brings back the cat and mouse game between Brady Hartsfield and Bill Hodges that started in <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/book-33-of-52-mr-mercedes\/\"><em>Mr. Mercedes<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 This was a good end for Hodges, though I can see why King decided to continue on with the Holly Gibney character.\u00a0 Speaking of which, her latest adventure was just released, so I should add that to the waitlist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though physically incapacitated, Brady Hartsfield has developed telekinetic and mind-control abilities through experimental drugs and begins a new wave of terror by manipulating others into committing suicide, starting with the survivors of his attack at the Civic Center.\u00a0 The police, unable or unwilling to do their own investigation, turn a blind eye as retired detective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[12038,9295,11565,718],"class_list":["post-22839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-end-of-watch","tag-goodreads-choice-awards","tag-mr-mercedes","tag-stephen-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22841,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22839\/revisions\/22841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}