Allen also has committed enough murders for some high-level mobsters to be scared the gunman will incriminate his former employers to lessen his sentence. He sets up in an office with a direct view of where hitman Joel Allen will be delivered to face trial for shooting two men during a poker game.
The job requires him to embed himself in a quiet town, where he pretends to be an aspiring writer (wonder if King had to do much research for that one). Never heard of it? Here’s your basic synopsis… Billy Summers is a hitman who is looking to retire and takes one last highly lucrative job to fill his bank balance. Published in 2021, ‘Billy Summers’ is one of the few titles written by King not designed to scare the living daylights out of his readers (unless your particular phobia is hitman doing one last job), and in fact falls into crime thriller territory. Once destined for television, ‘ Billy Summers’ will now become a movie, according to Deadline.
There are changes afoot for a new Stephen King adaptation being driven by J.J.
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