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"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect new identity lined up and a scrupulously orchestrated, flawless escape plan. And then something happens that changes everything for Billy. A stranger needs rescuing, and Billy sacrifices the safety of his own perfectly devised new life to offer her protection. And then the two of them-the most compelling and surprising duo in King fiction-set out on one last mission, to rectify the injustices of one extraordinarily evil man"--… (lisätietoja)
I really enjoyed this book. It was a little melancholy and slow at the start, but it sure turned into a page turner for me. I couldn’t put it down. Great book Mr. King. Two thumbs up. ( )
It was a character novel. Billy is a hired hit man who only kills ?bad men? and he signs on to his last kill before retiring. Things don?t quite work out that way for him. It is interesting to follow his story that he puts into words by writing a book. Kirkus: The ever prolific King moves from his trademark horror into the realm of the hard-boiled noir thriller.?He?s not a normal person. He?s a hired assassin, and if he doesn?t think like who and what he is, he?ll never get clear.? So writes King of his title character, whom the Las Vegas mob has brought in to rub out another hired gun who?s been caught and is likely to talk. Billy, who goes by several names, is a complex man, a Marine veteran of the Iraq War who?s seen friends blown to pieces; he?s perhaps numbed by PTSD, but he?s goal-oriented. He?s also a readerZola?s novel Th?rÂse Raquin figures as a MacGuffinÂ¥which sets his employer?s wheels spinning: If a reader, then why not have him pretend he?s a writer while he?s waiting for the perfect moment to make his hit? It wouldn?t be the first writer, real or imagined, King has pressed into service, and if Billy is no Jack Torrance, there?s a lovely, subtle hint of the Overlook Hotel and its spectral occupants at the end of the yarn. It?s no spoiler to say that whereas Billy carries out the hit with grim precision, things go squirrelly, complicated by his rescue of a young womanÂ¥AliceÂ¥after she?s been roofied and raped. Billy?s revenge on her behalf is less than sweet. As a memoir grows in his laptop, Billy becomes more confident as a writer: ?He doesn?t know what anyone else might think, but Billy thinks it?s good,? King writes of one day?s output. ?And good that it?s awful, because awful is sometimes the truth. He guesses he really is a writer now, because that?s a writer?s thought.? Billy?s art becomes life as Alice begins to take an increasingly important part in it, crisscrossing the country with him to carry out a final hit on an errant bad guy: ?He flopped back on the sofa, kicked once, and fell on the floor. His days of raping children and murdering sons and God knew what else were over.? That story within a story has a nice twist, and Billy?s battered copy of Zola?s book plays a part, too.Murder most foul and mayhem most entertaining. Another worthy page-turner from a protean master.
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
I once was lost, but now am found. - Amazing Grace
Omistuskirjoitus
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Thinking of Raymond and Sarah Jane Spruce
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Billy Summers sits in the hotel lobby, waiting for his ride. It's Friday noon. Although he's reading a digest-sized comic book called Archie's Pals 'n' Gals, he's thinking about Émile Zola, and Zola's third novel, his breakthrough, Thérèse Raquin.
Sitaatit
Tiedot ranskankielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Saviez-vous qu'il était possible de s'asseoir devant un écran ou une feuille de papier et de changer le monde ? Ça ne dure pas, le monde finit toujours par revenir, mais en attendant, c'est génial.
Viimeiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
She stands looking across the gulf of cold air between this side and that, hands in her pockets, thinking she could create worlds. Billy gave her that chance. She is here. She is found.
"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect new identity lined up and a scrupulously orchestrated, flawless escape plan. And then something happens that changes everything for Billy. A stranger needs rescuing, and Billy sacrifices the safety of his own perfectly devised new life to offer her protection. And then the two of them-the most compelling and surprising duo in King fiction-set out on one last mission, to rectify the injustices of one extraordinarily evil man"--
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