Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life-for good, for bad, forever.

Not since Misery has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Gessen steps away from analyzing Russian leaders themselves, and instead investigates the society that keeps them in power. Decades later, a boy named Pete Sauberg finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he’s released from prison after thirty-five years. Her latest book, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, was released in October of 2017 to great critical acclaim in November Gessen was awarded the National Book Award in nonfiction for this work. Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel. Since the 2016 election, Gessen's articles and commentary on Trump, Putin, hypocrisy, demagogues, and related issues have become essential. To achieve what she ambitiously envisioned as a 'long Russian (nonfiction) novel,' Gessen employs a whole host. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Publisher: Riverhead Books, 515 pages, 28.

The genius is John Rothstein, a Salinger-like icon who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades.

“Wake up, genius.” So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. Mercedes and second part of a proposed trilogy.

Gessen the future is history