The recoil hit the hollow of my shoulder. We are handed such frisson-inducing set-pieces with satisfying regularity (“I squeezed the trigger. There are piquant echoes throughout of earlier works – one episode is reminiscent of the Overlook hotel from The Shining with its unreal inhabitants: a Colorado setting and a hint of the supernatural.Īnd no Stephen King novel would be complete without scarifying bursts of violence. As well as being a reader of serious fiction and trying to write the great American novel, the lethal Billy suffers from PTSD and is as complex a character as anyone in the King canon. It is as if King is providing bonus material for all the academic theses written on his work, doing the homework in advance for students. Billy assumes the mantle of a novelist, engaged in writing his own autobiography (which, unsurprisingly, strays from the truth – but the truth, Billy decides, is to be discerned through fiction). Herskovitz is repped by CAA, Hansen, Jacobson, et al, and 3 Arts.Lowbrow stuff this is not: King is alerting us to a literary strand in his thriller. Zwick is with CAA and Hansen, Jacobson, etc. Abrams is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein. DiCaprio is repped by LBI Entertainment and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. King is repped by Rand Holston and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown and Passman. This will be Bad Robot’s latest adaptation with King, after series Lisey’s Story, Castle Rock and 11.22.63. Summers, a meticulous craftsman, becomes more and more cynical about the mobsters who’ve hired him, and his skepticism is well warranted as things go awry following the job’s completion. 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 (he actually pours himself into the prose).

Matt Berry In Talks To Join Jason Momoa In Warner Bros' 'Minecraft'īilly Summers is a hitman who is looking to retire and takes one last highly lucrative job to feather his nest.

Book billy summers