

When the job turns out to be a setup, Billy must switch gears and rewrite his plans entirely. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.īilly Summers is a top-tier assassin with a heart of gold. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. This reading group guide for BILLY SUMMERS includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. You won’t ever forget this stunning novel from master storyteller Stephen King…and you will never forget Billy. Part war story and part love letter to small-town America and the people who live there, this spectacular thriller of luck, fate, and love will grip readers with its electrifying narrative, as a complex antihero with one last shot at redemption must avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. Given that Billy is among the most talented snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, and a virtual Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done, what could possibly go wrong? How about everything. Before he can do that though, there’s one last hit, which promises a generous payday at the end of the line even as things don’t seem quite on the level here. But now, time is catching up with him, and Billy wants out.

He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business-but he’ll do the job only if the assignment is a truly bad person. You won’t put this story down, and you won’t forget Billy.Master storyteller Stephen King, whose “restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained” ( The New York Times Book Review), presents an unforgettable and relentless #1 New York Times bestseller about a good guy in a bad job.Ĭhances are, if you’re a target of Billy Summers, two immutable truths apply: You’ll never even know what hit you, and you’re really getting what you deserve. It’s about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption. This spectacular can’t-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. So what could possibly go wrong? How about everything. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun.

1 bestseller Stephen King, whose ‘restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained’ ( The New York Times Book Review), comes a thrilling new novel about a good guy in a bad job.
