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# Billy Summers

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desertcart.com: Billy Summers (Audible Audio Edition): Stephen King, Paul Sparks, Simon & Schuster Audio: Books

Review: The life of a sniper/hitman, turned agent of revenge and justice - This latest work from King is another thriller/crime novel. There are 24 chapters, and about 515 pages of story. Billy is a troubled Iraq war vet sniper, who has now become a very professional hitman. He uses several identities as cover, one of which is a writer. The pacing is pretty slow for the first half of the book, as Billy's character is established. We learn about his past traumas, and his skillful, observant, and clever nature. Billy seems to get some cathartic benefit from using his cover as a writer to express his inner thoughts, and some of my favorite parts of the book were his early writing efforts. Halfway through the book, we meet Alice, another troubled character that has suffered through her own brutal traumas. From the point that Billy meets Alice, the book morphs into more of a revenge quest; hunting down the bad guys to make them pay for their crimes. This shift in pace and motivation almost makes it seem like a different story, and I wonder if this part was written after the pandemic? There are also a few cool easter eggs, or references to places from other King books, that I'm sure Constant Readers will appreciate. Overall I enjoyed this book even more than “Later”, King's other crime novel released this year. I thought the pacing was a little slow in the first part of this book, but it did give some depth to the main character; and reading Billy's struggles and development as a writer was entertaining. I enjoyed the ending of the book so much, that I feel like it more than makes up for a slow start to the book. Overall another good book from King, and I think that fans of his that recognize some of the references might enjoy it even more.
Review: One of King's Best Novels - I'm going to start of by saying that I think it's a real shame that the "top" (meaning having garnered the most "helpful" clicks by other reviewers) 4 reviews of BILLY SUMMERS are all extremely short and strongly negative, criticizing, once again, the author's well known anti-Trump feelings. Many of the negative "reviewers" state that they didn't even finish the novel, but quit reading and asked for a refund (That is a weird concept to me - I'd never consider returning a book because I didn't like it). These are also highly misleading as "top" reviews, since in total, 1 and 2 star reviews comprise only 3% of the total, with 5 and 4 star reviews making up a remarkable 93% of over 11,300 reviews to date. OK, enough of that. As is easily deduced from the professional (newspaper, periodicals etc.) excerpted reviews on the desertcart page, BILLY SUMMERS is very different from the usual horror/science fiction/fantasy that King is so well known for. This one is a crime thriller about a paid assassin, the eponymous BILLY SUMMERS who is doing one last job before retiring for good at the age of 44. A highly decorated Gulf War veteran who became a sniper in the Marines, Billy only takes on jobs where the intended target is a really bad guy. He's still a murderer of course, but his complex moral code, made very clear in the first half of the novel when acting as his undercover identities for several months, he becomes incredibly popular with his new neighbors and their kids. He's invited to dinners, hosts cookouts and becomes a monopoly legend, while waiting for the signal from his employers that the arrival of the target is imminent. One of the narrative devices that King uses is to have Billy's main false identity be that of a writer. Eventually Billy decides to do it for real, and starts to write his history, from a horrible childhood through his time in Iraq. This story within a story (sort of) was one my favorite pieces, as Billy slowly realizes that he is actually quite good at writing. The second half of the short (for King that is, around 520 pages) novel turns into a kind of road trip-buddy-love story that is quite beautiful, suspenseful and unputdownable. Enough synopsis, as the several twists and turns of this crime story that becomes a mystery as to why this target and who is really behind the hit is hidden until very near the end and deserve to be totally unspoiled. There is a brief and repeated callback to one of the creepiest happenings in one of King's most famous and popular novels in there somewhere, but aside from the nods to that older work, there is not the slightest hint of anything of the supernatural or occult, which is one of the reasons that I waited so long to read BILLY SUMMERS in the first place. My bad. This is an outstanding piece of writing and plotting all the way through. Very Highly Recommended. JM Tepper

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The life of a sniper/hitman, turned agent of revenge and justice
*by C***C on August 3, 2021*

This latest work from King is another thriller/crime novel. There are 24 chapters, and about 515 pages of story. Billy is a troubled Iraq war vet sniper, who has now become a very professional hitman. He uses several identities as cover, one of which is a writer. The pacing is pretty slow for the first half of the book, as Billy's character is established. We learn about his past traumas, and his skillful, observant, and clever nature. Billy seems to get some cathartic benefit from using his cover as a writer to express his inner thoughts, and some of my favorite parts of the book were his early writing efforts. Halfway through the book, we meet Alice, another troubled character that has suffered through her own brutal traumas. From the point that Billy meets Alice, the book morphs into more of a revenge quest; hunting down the bad guys to make them pay for their crimes. This shift in pace and motivation almost makes it seem like a different story, and I wonder if this part was written after the pandemic? There are also a few cool easter eggs, or references to places from other King books, that I'm sure Constant Readers will appreciate. Overall I enjoyed this book even more than “Later”, King's other crime novel released this year. I thought the pacing was a little slow in the first part of this book, but it did give some depth to the main character; and reading Billy's struggles and development as a writer was entertaining. I enjoyed the ending of the book so much, that I feel like it more than makes up for a slow start to the book. Overall another good book from King, and I think that fans of his that recognize some of the references might enjoy it even more.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of King's Best Novels
*by J***R on September 8, 2021*

I'm going to start of by saying that I think it's a real shame that the "top" (meaning having garnered the most "helpful" clicks by other reviewers) 4 reviews of BILLY SUMMERS are all extremely short and strongly negative, criticizing, once again, the author's well known anti-Trump feelings. Many of the negative "reviewers" state that they didn't even finish the novel, but quit reading and asked for a refund (That is a weird concept to me - I'd never consider returning a book because I didn't like it). These are also highly misleading as "top" reviews, since in total, 1 and 2 star reviews comprise only 3% of the total, with 5 and 4 star reviews making up a remarkable 93% of over 11,300 reviews to date. OK, enough of that. As is easily deduced from the professional (newspaper, periodicals etc.) excerpted reviews on the Amazon page, BILLY SUMMERS is very different from the usual horror/science fiction/fantasy that King is so well known for. This one is a crime thriller about a paid assassin, the eponymous BILLY SUMMERS who is doing one last job before retiring for good at the age of 44. A highly decorated Gulf War veteran who became a sniper in the Marines, Billy only takes on jobs where the intended target is a really bad guy. He's still a murderer of course, but his complex moral code, made very clear in the first half of the novel when acting as his undercover identities for several months, he becomes incredibly popular with his new neighbors and their kids. He's invited to dinners, hosts cookouts and becomes a monopoly legend, while waiting for the signal from his employers that the arrival of the target is imminent. One of the narrative devices that King uses is to have Billy's main false identity be that of a writer. Eventually Billy decides to do it for real, and starts to write his history, from a horrible childhood through his time in Iraq. This story within a story (sort of) was one my favorite pieces, as Billy slowly realizes that he is actually quite good at writing. The second half of the short (for King that is, around 520 pages) novel turns into a kind of road trip-buddy-love story that is quite beautiful, suspenseful and unputdownable. Enough synopsis, as the several twists and turns of this crime story that becomes a mystery as to why this target and who is really behind the hit is hidden until very near the end and deserve to be totally unspoiled. There is a brief and repeated callback to one of the creepiest happenings in one of King's most famous and popular novels in there somewhere, but aside from the nods to that older work, there is not the slightest hint of anything of the supernatural or occult, which is one of the reasons that I waited so long to read BILLY SUMMERS in the first place. My bad. This is an outstanding piece of writing and plotting all the way through. Very Highly Recommended. JM Tepper

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of his best
*by B***P on September 1, 2022*

There are several phases to King's career. The first phase, the second phase, the third phase and the one he's in now. I became enamoured of his work in the first phase, when he wrote some of his best-known and best-loved books. I still think that's his greatest phase, generally speaking although he still managed to put out some genius work in the second phase. The last two phases haven't been all that consistent. However, he is still capable of writing good stuff that matches the early work. Books like 23.11.63, Under The Dome and Joyland for example. Billy Summers is one of those. I was curious to read it as it seemed like a 'straight' novel, that is one without a supernatural component. And so it turned out to be. It's no big secret that King has often yearned to turn away from supernatural 'horror' stories and has done so with the series starting with Mr Mercedes. I think Billy Summers is the best example of a non-horror story since the work he did under the Richard Bachman pseudonym, specifically the highly underrated novella, Roadwork. It's a great story, well told and any fan of Mr King should read it. I won't bother to get into the details of the story, you can find that out for yourself easily enough. Suffice to say it's one of those that moves along very swiftly. I won't use the old hackneyed phrase but you'll want to get back to it until it's done. I found myself purposely putting it down so I didn't read it too fast. I'm sure he had just as much fun writing it as I had reading it. Take it from someone who has been reading S. King since he was in high school -- this is one of the good ones and it showcases all of his considerable talents. The characters are vivid, the story is well plotted and paced, the details are right on point. There are a couple of odd things to do with weaponry (like the idea you can silence a revolver) but that's nothing major. If you love a good story well told, you'll enjoy it immensely. I know I did.

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