Billy Summers

Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. 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. So what could possibly go wrong?

How about everything.

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. It's about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption.

You won't put this story down, and you won't forget Billy.

“One of the great storytellers of our time - Guardian

If you read only one thriller this summer, make it this one - Daily Mail on The Outsider”

A dazzlingly shapeshifting novel that, like its antihero, only pretends to be easy to pigeonhole. Disciplined but adventurous, equally good at action scenes and in-depth psychology The Sunday Times
A thriller with a surprisingly heartfelt and redemptive ending, Billy Summers is a compelling and engrossing read Sunday Express
King's killer instinct hits the mark again... Without abandoning his blood-chilling propensities, he has transformed himself into one of the most adroit and accomplished crime writers in the US. King has negotiated the shifting of gears with the kind of panache that befits the "ultimate storyteller" (for once, publisher hyperbole is justified). The I
His best book in years . . . He may always be considered a horror novelist, but King is doing the best work of his later career when the ghosts are packed away and the monsters are all too human Guardian
Storytelling genius Telegraph
Adventurously shape-shifting yet always disciplined, it's a dazzling return to form The Sunday Times
Devoured it ... it's such a page-turner -- Martin Clunes Radio Times
It's a novel with a heart-stopping, heartfelt conclusion Daily Express, Books of the Year
Stephen King is primarily known as a master of horror, but at heart he is a hardcore thriller writer Irish Independent, Books of the Year
A cracking noir RTE Guide, Books of the Year
A brilliantly enjoyable novel with a thrilling conclusion Irish Times, Books of the Year
Stephen King combines a story of corruption in high places with a lyrical portrait of small-town life and a bittersweet love story Daily Mail
Disciplined but adventurous, equally good at action scenes and psychology, King shows with this novel that, at 74, he's . . . at the top of his game The Sunday Times
[An] excellent crime caper Irish Times

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than sixty books, all worldwide bestsellers. His recent titles include The Institute , which was described by the Sunday Express as a 'masterpiece', The Outsider (voted winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for best Mystery and Thriller 2018), and If It Bleeds. Many of his titles have been turned into celebrated films, TV series and streamed events including IT, 'a book which speaks to everybody' ( Guardian ), The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me .King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine.

The perfect crime doesn't exist. The perfect getaway . . . that's another story. Billy Summers is a killer for hire. He's among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet who can blend into any neighbourhood and disappear after the shot is taken. But he'll only agree to a contract if the target is a truly bad guy.Now Billy wants out. But first he's offered one final job - an offer which is just too big to refuse.As the days count down to the hit, Billy senses something is wrong. He doesn't yet know just how wrong, or about the woman who will help him try to set things right.Part thriller, part war story, part lyrical portrait of small-town America, Billy Summers is about a good man in a bad job, with one last shot at redemption 'A compelling and engrossing read' - Sunday Express 'Adventurously shape-shifting yet always disciplined . . . dazzling' - The Sunday Times

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