“You don’t use it because you expect to be in a crash, but you never know who you might meet coming over a hill on your side of the road. “It’s like a seatbelt,” he says of his dumb self. In his business, being underestimated often proves safer than being clever. Billy likes to put his “dumb self” on display, leaving those who hire him with the impression that he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer. “Billy Summers” opens with the title character awaiting a client while reading Emile Zola’s “Therese Raquin,” switching the novel for an Archie comic book when the potential customers arrive. Rather, he’s a 44-year-old sure-shot assassin, albeit one who shoots and kills only “bad” people. Billy, however, isn’t an earnest young creative writing student at some community college. King’s new novel, “Billy Summers,” goes all-in in its depiction of a neophyte learning to craft a story. In March’s “Later,” the protagonist’s mother works as a literary agent, her livelihood dependent on the output of a single best-selling author. This year, King has already delivered one novel with a strong connection to the world of books. You won't put this story down, and you won't forget Billy.Write what you know, right? If only it were that easy. It's about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption. This spectacular can't-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man.
Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy.
He's a killer for hire and the best in the business.
From legendary storyteller and #1 bestseller Stephen King, whose "restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained" ( The New York Times Book Review), comes a thrilling new novel about a good guy in a bad job.īilly Summers is a man in a room with a gun.
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