Never Flinch, Stephen King
Never Flinch, Stephen King
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Never Flinch

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Jessie Mueller, Stephen King

Unabridged: 14 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/27/2025


Synopsis

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The New York Times Book Review, AV Club, Variety, The Boston Globe, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Vulture, Men’s Health, Book Riot, The New York Post, Goodreads, AARP, Paste, and more!

From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker—featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters.

When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to “kill thirteen innocents and one guilty” in “an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man,” Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help.

Meanwhile, controversial and outspoken women’s rights activist Kate McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour, drawing packed venues of both fans and detractors. Someone who vehemently opposes Kate’s message of female empowerment is targeting her and disrupting her events. At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder, and Holly is hired to be Kate’s bodyguard—a challenging task with a headstrong employer and a determined adversary driven by wrath and his belief in his own righteousness.

Featuring a riveting cast of characters both old and new, including world-famous gospel singer Sista Bessie and an unforgettable villain addicted to murder, these twinned narratives converge in a chilling and spectacular conclusion—a feat of storytelling only Stephen King could pull off.

Thrilling, wildly fun, and outrageously engrossing, Never Flinch is one of King’s richest and most propulsive novels.

About Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King was born in 1947 in the city of Portland, Maine. He attended the University of Maine, where he received a B.A. degree in English in 1970. He married his present wife, Tabitha, in 1971, and they have three children. King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His novels have sold more than 350 million copies. Many have been made into films, television movies, and comics. He has published 54 novels using a pen name (Richard Bachman) for a few of them. Many of his stories take place in his home state of Maine.

He has won about every possible literary award beginning with his 1980 novella, The Way Station. His most notable literary award was in 2007 for the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.King has had the common human weaknesses including alcoholism and drug addiction. His health during that period was so bad that he barely remembered writing the novel, Cujo. The first novel written after he quit all dependent drugs and alcohol was Needful Things.Stephen King's wife, Tabitha, has published nine of her own novels along with both sons being published writers. His daughter is a Unitarian Universalism Church minister with her same sex partner.

A life altering happening beset King in June of 1999. King was walking on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine, when a driver, who was distracted by an unrestrained dog, struck him from behind. His severe injuries kept him in the hospital until July 9. His lawyer purchased the van that hit him to prevent it from being sold on eBay. It was crushed at a junkyard. King thought that he would not write again, but did resume writing with this caveat, "I'm writing, but I'm writing at a slower pace".

His most notable novels are: Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, Misery, It, The Dark Tower, Under the Dome, and The Shawshank Redemption.


Reviews

Goodreads review by The Bookish Elf on December 17, 2024

Stephen King, master of suspense, horror, and humanity, returns with Never Flinch, the fourth book in the Holly Gibney series. Readers familiar with Holly—first introduced in The Outsider and later featured in If It Bleeds and Holly—will find her sharper, more determined, yet achingly human in her l......more

Goodreads review by beth on May 20, 2025

If Holly Gibney has no fans I’m dead......more

Goodreads review by Dave on May 26, 2025

So, I’ve had some time to reflect since finishing this one and my overall feeling is one of frustration, frustration at what is a strange mix of some truly compelling parts mixed with stuff that just didn’t stick at all and quickly faded from my memory. Never Flinch is a book that teases, that threa......more

Goodreads review by Deb on December 29, 2024

Welcome back to the world of Holly Gibney and Finders Keepers where the main characters return but with a cast of new people. Amazing read as always.......more

Goodreads review by Debbie on May 25, 2025

First ever 3-star for a Stephen King for me. It just doesn't feel like him. Maybe not a "cozy mystery" (the WORST, imo) but pretty close, much as I hate to say it. It fits together too neatly, relies on improbable leaps and not too believable connections. Just was not feeling this one. At all.......more