Uncannily adept as both a shooter and an escape artist, Billy decides that his latest assignment, sniping a fellow hired gun powerful people want dead because he knows too much, will be his last. 'Don't hurt my babies!': How 'Lisey's Story' became Stephen King's 'exhausting' passion projectĪ decorated Iraq war vet, Billy is the man to call if you need an assassination done right, though he has a strong code: Billy only puts a bullet in people who he feels deserve to be put down. There’s also multiple coming-of-age stories, a book-within-a-book, an overarching mystery, a dash of political commentary, some twists and a touching side to the narrative exploring the fine line between bad men and actual monsters. Mercedes” trilogy, “The Outsider” and "Later," but his new book, “Billy Summers” (Scribner, 528 pp., ★★★½ out of four, out Tuesday), proves this run is no fluke: He actually is as good at the hard-boiled prose – in this case, the tale of an extremely effective assassin trying to get out after one last job – as he is the scary stuff. King has been dipping into noir and detective thrillers recently with the “Mr. Look out, bodice-ripping romance, he’s probably coming for you next. Billy Summer might be connected to the novel The Shining, because the Overlook Hotel is seen and mentioned in the story.It’s downright unfair, really: Not only is Stephen King an undisputed master of horror, he’s a virtuosic crime novelist as well.
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