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From legendary storyteller and #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.
Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. 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. So what could possibly go wrong?
How about everything.
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. It’s about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption.
You won’t put this story down, and you won’t forget Billy.
Editore : Scribner; 1° edizione (3 agosto 2021)
Lingua : Inglese
Copertina rigida : 528 pagine
ISBN-10 : 1982182059
ISBN-13 : 978-1982182052
Peso articolo : 780 g
Dimensioni : 24.1 x 16.1 x 2.9 cm
Donny –
Another of Kingâs page- turners.
This was a book I couldnât put down. The life and mind-set of a paid killer is depicted convincingly and gave me much food for thought. Exciting right to the last page.
Teresa Mastrobuono –
One of King’s Best!
This was different from much of King’s other work in that it didn’t have an element of supernatural horror. Just plain old horror and suspense rooted in believable human behavior. Wonderfully and compellingly delineated characters. The plot and its complications just pull you along. I couldn’t put it down and yet didn’t want it to end. A great read for fans and non-fans of King. Great read!
Tito Manlio Cerioli –
KING colpisce ancora??
Ormai quasi ogni anno esce un nuovo romanzo del re del brivido e purtroppo in questi ultimi anni la qualità si è andata molto abbassando. Per la verità non è questo il caso, si tratta di un romanzo ben stutturato, scorrevole, ben scritto e di buana qualità , tuttavia non è certo al livello dei grandi classici del migliore King, Sena entrare nei dettagli della trama la storia parla di un Cecchino, che lavora come assassino a pagamento ma che vorrebbe ritirarsi ma gli viene offerta una cifra folle per fare un ultimo assassinio. Si trattatta di un testo a metà fra il Weird ed il Thriller con tinte da romanzo giallo. Tutti generi che King non riesce a dominare bene. In sistesi carino ma non memorabile nonostante il cameo dell’overllok Hotel con le sue scuture strgate che fa una fugace apparizione nel romanzo e ne costituisce forse il punto migliore.
jackey –
One of his best ever
I liked everything about this novel. The character is well defined, a killer with a heart, but absolutely credible. I liked the story in the story and the double ending:the real and the fictional. I Likud the suspense and the romance. This is one of the best novels King has written in the last years.
anna maria –
Billy Summers
Stephen King è il mio eroe. Billy Summers è un libro dove sia per i protagonisti sia per il lettore le storie, i libri salvano la vita. Racconto struggente di un paese al bivio, di guerre dimenticate ma soprattutto di come leggere e scrivere diano ad una persona non solo uno scopo ma il senso della vita
HD2023 –
King at his best
Top writer!! Never disappointed. Another masterpieceðð¯
Giuseppina Lombardi –
King scrive magnificamente, con qualsiasi genere si cimenti
Storia che sfora la poesia, pur con linguaggio molto colloquiale. Un giallo con lievi accenni all’inspiegabile e soprannaturale che caratterizza King.Unico appunto: ci ha fatto troppo affezionare al protagonista!
salvatore santangelo –
Un capolavoro
Stevie ha scritto il libro della maturità . Un romanzo complessissimo e metaletterario sul potere immenso che ha la letteratura di creare mondi e mondi . Verso la fine i mondi si intersecano allâinterno della stessa pagina . Senza parole â¦
YuMi Hc –
Historia entretenida, de muy fácil lectura. Muy recomendado
Ginny Brown (Virginia) –
Iâm a huge Stephen King fan. Not every single King book has clicked with me, although most have. I give Billy Summers a 5/5.Itâs a real page-turner, and I found myself unable to put it down at times.The story is huge. It covers a lot of territory- both geographically and intellectually, and it is hard to remember that the writer didnât experience the events first-hand. Itâs packed with excitement, sentimentality, humor and great wisdomâ¦.simply a great read!
Mateus Fonseca –
 Estou avaliando a qualidade fÃsica do produto, não a história.A edição é linda e tem jm efeito maravilhoso na capa, é uma luva de ótima qualidade. A capa dura imita tecido e tem a cor preta na lombada e vermelho no restante. Simplesmente um lindo livro.
Josh Mauthe –
As Stephen King has gotten older, heâs been more and more willing to step out of his comfort zone, finding new and interesting stories to tell and areas on which to focus. Until now, the most obvious example of this was Mr. Mercedes, in which King tried his hand at a serial killer novel, but found a way to do it that made it feel undeniably his own. Thatâs not to say that Mr. Mercedes was bad, mind you â I enjoyed it â but it definitely felt like King trying his hand at something different, and stretching it all to fit his ideas and tropes.But now comes Billy Summers, an âassassin with one last jobâ tale, and whatâs remarkable is the fact that itâs simultaneously a superb, faithful entry in the genre that hits all the needed beats, but also unmistakably a King book, with the character development, relentless pacing, and set pieces heâs so capable of delivering when heâs at his peak. Whatâs more, Billy Summers finds King focusing his abilities in a way he hasnât in a while, paring back some of his verbal tics and overly large characters in favor of a well-observed, surprisingly internal story about a very bad man reckoning with the choices he made that led him here. And the result is one of Kingâs best books in years â probably since 11/22/63, and that was a decade ago.As youâd expect from the âone last jobâ mention I gave, the setup of Billy Summers sounds formulaic: an assassin (one who argues that he only kills âbad menâ) agrees to take a job that sounds off (if nothing else, heâs going to have to live âundercoverâ in a small town for months while waiting on the job to happen) because itâs time to get out, and he canât turn down the money. Classic, right? But even early on, itâs clear that King has more on his mind than just the tropes. Thereâs the way that Billy, our assassin, is so clearly putting on a front of his stupidity, using that to lull people around him into letting down their guard. Thereâs the fact that Billy is all too aware that his âonly bad guysâ excuse is just that â an excuse that heâs using to justify his own actions.And thereâs the fact that this last job doesnât turn out to be the set piece of the book, or the climaxâ¦but something that happens at only a third of the way through our pages. So whatâs left after that?Well, quite a bit, it turns out, as Billy Summers turns into something wholly different in many ways, all while never losing its focus on Billyâs development, as this very bad man begins to grapple with his identity â not just the choices that led him to this job, but his upbringing, his time in Iraq, his first jobs, and so much more. And thanks to some unexpected developments, Billy finds himself viewing himself in a new light â and a wholly more complicated one.Part of whatâs so good about Billy Summers is watching the book evolve and change in front of you, so Iâm trying to be coy about so much of what unfolds here. But what Iâll say is that the book does what King does best: marry genre thrills (in this case, a relentless thriller about an assassin) with strong, complex character work. And what he pulls off here is some of his best effort on both of those fronts. The plotting is tense but effective, using Kingâs gifts for pacing and tension to maximum effect, but also knowing when a much-anticipated event should subvert our expectations, or knowing when things can be best left off the page.And at the same time, King finds a way into Billyâs mind in a way that allows him to find even more of a voice than usual for a King character, eschewing Kingâs normal verbal tics and running catchphrases and instead giving us a complex individual who doesnât really fit into easy categories. And the cast around him measures up to that, as King takes archetypal roles (ones almost demanded by the genre) and makes them individualistic and believable, down to the ending, which is one of Kingâs best and sidesteps his famed iffiness on nailing the dismount.Look, Iâm a King fanboy, to be fair, and you can take this review knowing that Iâve liked way more King books than not. But to me, Billy Summers is a knockout, one that finds King focused and taut and showing a confidence in this (for him) unfamiliar genre that heâs earned. The book is tighter than heâs often gone, wasting little time but never forgetting the complexity of its cast, and it does right by both its thriller story and its complex protagonist. I absolutely loved it, and itâs a treat to see King still delivering knockouts this late into his career. And if youâve always wanted to try King but werenât into horror, well, do I have a treat for you.
Robin Sheppard –
Billy Summers is an excellent book, extremely well written and not a page too long.Billy, ex Marine sniper now paid hitman for a mob boss is set up as a writer in a southern town while he waits for his target to come to town. Alice, wannabe student but on the run from her mum is in the same town.How they meet up and what happens to them makes for Kingâs best book, a thriller but so much more.