The result is one of my favourite books that King has written in recent years, and I’m glad that I picked this one up for sure. When that happens, a new character is introduced which totally changes the dynamics. It’s more that it seems as though the story is going in one direction, and then it kind of reaches the end of one plot line and takes off in another. There’s also a little twist about half way through, although I’m not sure if it’s accurate to call it that. These ones, though, don’t slow the story down. Really well – in fact, the excerpts of Billy’s novel reminded me of the excerpts of Paul Sheldon’s novel in Misery, except that I wasn’t a fan of those. This is the mechanism that King uses to slowly tell Billy’s backstory in his own voice, and it worked well.
Meanwhile, he’s also getting into his cover story by writing a book, which takes the form of an autobiography. But as time goes on, it quickly becomes apparent that he’s perhaps enjoying that a little too much and getting closer than he really ought to.
The only problem is that he has to settle into the job by living under an alias and fitting into a local neighbourhood.
He prides himself on the fact that he only ever kills bad guys, and he ends up taking on the famous “one last job” for a $2 million payday. It follows a hitman for hire, an assassin who used to be a sniper in the US military before going freelance. It’s also a damn good one, although you might be disappointed if you go in expecting the hardcore horror that he was known for when he first started out. This is King’s latest book, at least at the time of writing and if I’ve got my facts straight.
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