![]() ![]() 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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