The only thing is that, instead of being Billy Summers, the main character of this 513 page story will need to assume the identity of one David Lockridge: A writer, who’s been moved from his home city to this small and foreign southern one, so that he’ll stop drinking and partying, and will focus on his writing. This could take weeks, or it could take months, and Nick is offering a couple of million dollars for his trouble.

This involves setting up camp in a small, southern USA city, becoming familiar with the locals and biding time until his target is extradited from a California prison. As you’ve likely guessed, that’s the powerful and wealthy scumbag who owns a massive casino, hires bad people to do his evil bidding and is responsible for most of Billy’s income.Īfter meeting Nick, Billy is asked to do something different for what will be his final job. Pretending to be dumber than he is, he’s awaiting the arrival of two mafiosos who are in charge of chauffeuring him to the rented home of one Nick Majarian. It’s numerous jobs in where we meet Billy, who’s sitting in a hotel lobby reading an Archie comic book. If not, he walks away and wipes his hands clean of the proposition. You see, while Billy earns his living killing people from afar, he will only take a job if the target is a bad person. By that I mean that he became a mob affiliated hitman, albeit one with a moral code. It was there, in the ever dangerous and incredibly foreign lands of the Middle East, where he honed his skills as one of his country’s best snipers.Īfter leaving the Service, our titular protagonist ended up being recruited for some not very legal activities.

This is especially true with his latest release, which is a fantastic read, and one that isn’t really supernatural at all.īilly Summers is a forty-something man from Tennessee, who had a difficult childhood and then went off to fight for his country. Although there are some paranormal elements to be found in one or two of those stories, scariness isn’t the focus. This has resulted in The Outsider, The Institute, Elevation and now Billy Summers. In recent years, King’s literary efforts have been less scary and more mysterious.

Things like Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Body and 11/22/63. No, he’s also written some of the most seminal, non-scary stories of the last number of decades. King isn’t a genre writer who can only write within the parameters of the scary and unusual. Whenever we think of Stephen King, we’re apt to focus on his being the King of Horror and all of the nightmarish stories he’s introduced us to over the years.

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