You won't put this story down, and you won't forget Billy. He might carry around an Archie comic digest as part of his cover, but by night he’s grappling with Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola. Despite playing dumb around the people who hire him so they’ll underestimate him, he is, in fact, very smart. It's about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption. Billy knows all about the trope of the last heist going bad. 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. We’re on when assassin Billy Summers, peering out of his periscope window in his hiding-spot apartment, sees an unconscious. So what could possibly go wrong? How about everything. We’re on of Billy Summers when Stephen King shoves a whole new plotline down the throat of the first, like a python swallowing a whole pig. 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. Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. 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.
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