Billy Summers
by Stephen King
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The new Stephen King novel, Billy Summers, is just out and has been receiving rave reviews; The Guardian called the assassination thriller “his best book in years”—Cal Flyn, notable novels of Fall 2021.
Cal Flyn, Deputy editor
Commentary
“In his latest novel, Billy Summers, there are no supernatural shades whatsoever (save a late Easter egg reference to a certain haunted hotel). Instead, he is in full noir mode, with a modest tale of an assassin on the requisite one-last-job-before-he’s-out. It meanders, it pays only the scantest regard to the rules of narrative structure, it indulges gladly in both casual stereotyping and naked political point-scoring. And it’s his best book in years”
Guardian review of Billy Summers by Stephen King, 4th August, 2021
Five Books review