Billy Summers Billy Summers

Billy Summers

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

    • 4.4 • 226 Ratings
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

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

GENRE
Crime & Thrillers
RELEASED
2021
3 August
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
448
Pages
PUBLISHER
Hodder & Stoughton
SELLER
Hachette Australia Pty Ltd
SIZE
2.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Whiskyboy50 ,

Just couldn’t put it down.

Loved this through from start to finish. Such excellent characters that the author lets you see inside of. Beautifully paced thriller.

Baildon22 ,

One of his greatest

I’ve been reading King since I was a teenager in the 80’s. And I can’t praise this book enough.
It’s thrilling and as usual a “ can’t put down” but what’s so different from his usual works is it’s passion for writing itself and the world’s that takes the reader into. I’d have to say his best work in years. Thank you Mr King for the suspense the depth of characters whom I am already missing and your insights on the struggles and beauty of the process of writing.

Sassy Morgan ,

A return to the King

I devoured all of his novels in the eighties and nineties. Then moved off to explore other authors. “Billy Summers”drew me back and did not disappoint. A compelling read, not in the horror genre, that deserves the return of readers who may not have read Stephen King recently. Utterly brilliant story telling with intimate connection to characters. The only disappointment was a feeling at the end that I was reading actual news reports! This read made me pre-order Fairy Tale!

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