One is tall with black hair combed in a 50s pompadour. Not that he’s ever written one.Īt two minutes past twelve, the door opens and two men come into the lobby. He’s thinking that would make a good thesis for an essay. He’s thinking that Zola was – is – the nightmare version of Charles Dickens. He’s thinking that Zola was just beginning to mine what would turn out to be a deep and fabulous vein of ore. He’s thinking it’s very much a young man’s book.

It’s Friday at noon.Īlthough 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. Sits in the hotel lobby, waiting for his ride. He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. King was the recipient of America’s prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American Letters.

King co-wrote the bestselling novel Sleeping Beauties with his son Owen King, and many of King’s books have been turned into celebrated films and television series including The Shawshank Redemption, Gerald’s Game, and It. His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, MR MERCEDES, won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award.īoth MR MERCEDES and END OF WATCH received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 20 respectively. Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. You won’t put this story down, and you won’t forget Billy. 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 a part war story, a 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. But first, there is one last hit.īilly 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. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business.īut he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy.Īnd now Billy wants out. Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun.

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