The cell rings twice & then his old partner in his ear &I&m at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide I&d like you to come & take a look Bring your sidekick with you if she&s available& Retired Detective Bill Hodges now runs a two-person firm called Finders Keepers with his partner Holly Gibney They met in the wake of the & Mercedes Massacre& when a queue of people was run down by the diabolical killer Brady Hartsfield Brady is now confined to Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic in an unresponsive state But all is not what it seems the evidence suggests that Brady is somehow awake & in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room When Bill & Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet one that will put their lives at risk as well as those of Bill&s heroic young friend Jerome Robinson & his teenage sister Barbara Brady Hartsfield is back & planning revenge not just on Hodges & his friends but on an entire city The clock is ticking in unexpected ways Both a st&-alone novel of heart-pounding suspense & a sublimely terrifying final episode in the Hodges trilogy End of Watch takes the series into a powerful new dimension The extract above is abridged from End of Watch