Billy Summers is a paid assassin. He is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war veteran who only takes on missions if the target is truly evil.

And now Billy wants to retire. However, he is offered one last job – and the offer is too big to refuse. Billy settles in a small town, Red Bluff, in an office overlooking the courthouse steps, from where he will shoot his target. He is supposed to be an aspiring writer. So he begins to write. First about his childhood, then about his days in the military. About Fallujah. And soon he discovers within himself an ever-growing yearning for the unusual power that storytelling grants him.

But the day of the assassination is approaching and Billy is increasingly certain that something is wrong with this job. He just doesn't know yet how wrong, nor does he know about the woman who will help him in his attempt to set things right.

Part war story, part love letter to small-town America, this impressive novel features one of the most unexpected pairs in King's fiction, who together aim to avenge the crimes of an incredibly vicious man. Billy Summers is a book about love, luck, fate, and one last attempt at redemption.