Billy Summers
An epic thriller from the No. 1 bestseller
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4,4 • 19 beoordelingen
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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
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ex-Army sniper turned hit man Billy Summers, the protagonist of this tripwire-taut thriller from MWA Grand Master King (Later), who views himself as "a garbageman with a gun," decides his 18th assassination will be his last. But he rightly smells something fishy in the promised $2 million payout and runs rogue when things go south with his employers. Matters get complicated when a rape victim whose life he saves becomes his confidante and a participant in his plans to get even. King meticulously lays out the details of Billy's trade, his Houdini-style escapes, and his act to look simpler than he is, but the novel's main strength is a story within a story: as he preps for months in the small town "east of the Mississippi and just south of the Mason-Dixon Line" where the hit will happen, Billy, masquerading as a novelist, writes his lightly fictionalized autobiography, which grows more candid as it inches closer to current events and illustrates a line he remembers from a Tim O'Brien interview that fiction "was the way to the truth." This is another outstanding outing from a writer who consistently delivers more than his readers expect.
Klantrecensies
Disappointing
I’m skeptical about “last job” scenarios but had hoped for the SK twist. Disappointed. The writing started out great but lost sight half-way through. An interesting plot that started meandering when Alice entered, as it felt like the author was wondering “what now?” and it went downhill from there, managing to follow every cliche. As a character, Billy Summers was relatable at the start but then started sounding like a judgmental sexist with a god-complex. I didn’t mind the political views as I’m always up for a dig at Trumpism but SK ended up making Billy almost extreme in the opposite direction, inadvertently mimicking what he evidently abhors.