6/20/2023 0 Comments Billy summers book review![]() King is a classy writer with a masterly control of his materials. Keeping the spoiler count to zero here, it spoils nothing to say he will need to disappear. Putting himself across as a writer and then there is another invented persona as he simultaneously sets up another identity, complete with wig and fake belly, in yet another community for when he needs to disappear from view after the job. ![]() So he’s Billy the Marine, Billy the assassin, he’s the guy The employer for this job comes to him through layers of subterfuge concealing the identity of his actual paymaster. ![]() In fact, his real background is that he was a decorated marine who went on to sell his sniper services to the highest bidder with the somewhat far-fetched caveat that he would only shoot bad guys. Billy is not just required to hunker down for a couple of hours or days but for several weeks becoming known in his apartment community under an alias with the made-up background of being a writer. The target is another assassin facing a murder trial for his last job and the long-range shot is to be taken as he is escorted up the courthouse steps. Billy takes on the job despite a multitude of reservations for reasons of getting out on the big score and, beneficently of King, so that we might have a story. Stephen King’s narrator is a knowing dude who acknowledges that the one last job which is inevitably beset with unanticipated perils and pitfalls, is something of a sub-genre of crime fiction.īut this is no meta-fiction indulgence. ![]()
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