The bosses set him up in a modest high-rise across from the court where his fellow hired gun will be making an appearance after being extradited on a murder charge. We find him accepting his final job at the start of the book, killing another hitman, entering deep-cover as a novelist looking for a bit of quiet in a small city. The titular character, a hitman who only kills “bad people,” is an avid reader who often plays dumb to lull his bosses into a false sense of security. King has a long history of writing books with plots about writing or starring writers, and, despite being essentially a rip-roaring heist novel, Billy Summers is no different. And little by little, the story started to spin out from that.” “I started to ask myself, ‘How is he going to do that?’ And I put myself to sleep, many a night, thinking about different possibilities, different ways that that might work. “I started to think about this problem, of a who had to take a shot and get away from the fifth floor, or the high floor, of a building,” he tells Rolling Stone. Stephen King lit upon the idea for his new book, Billy Summers, while telling himself bedtime stories.
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