Billy is meant to shoot and kill him at that time, and then disappear. The office has a direct view of the courthouse, where Joel Allen will eventually be taken to be arraigned for his murder charge. Billy's cover story is that he is a writer named David Lockridge, who has been tasked by his publishing agent to stay there, and go to the office and write each day in an attempt to meet his deadline.

The job requires Billy to spend some quiet time undercover as a resident in the small town of Midwood, where an office space has been rented out for his use. Allen has claimed to have valuable information that the police wants in order to make a plea deal, and apparently, someone, whom Nick can't name, doesn't want Allen talking, which is why Billy has been hired to take him out. Nick Majarian, a mobster whom Billy has worked for many times before, offers him one last job-one that pays $500,000 up front, and $1.5 million after it's done.īilly's target is Joel Allen, also a hitman, who was arrested for murdering a man who won a fortune off of him in a poker game. Marine sniper, who only accepts jobs killing truly evil men, but now he wants to retire from the assassin life altogether. Plot īilly Summers is a 44-year-old hitman and former U.S. You won't put this story down, and you won't forget Billy.Billy Summers is a crime novel written by American author Stephen King, published by Scribner on August 3, 2021. 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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