Stephen King (Get this book)In his latest suspenser, the prolific King returns to the theme of the scary car-except this one has a scary driver who's as loony but logical unto himself as old Jack Torrance from The Shining.It's an utterly American setup: Over here is a line of dispirited people waiting to get into a job fair, and over there is a psycho licking his chops at the easy target they present; he aims a car into the crowd and mows down a bunch of innocents, killing eight and hurting many more. The car isn't his. The malice most certainly is, and it's up to world-weary ex-cop Bill Hodges to pull himself up from depression and figure out the identity of the author of that heinous act. The storyline is vintage King, too: In the battle of good and evil, good may prevail-but never before evil has caused a whole lot of mayhem. It's nicely dark, never predictable and altogether entertaining.--Kirkus
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