Billy Summers

A contract killer with a private code takes one last assignment and settles into a small town behind the cover story of a novelist at work. Billy Summers spends as much time at a desk as in a sniper's position, and the pages he writes about his own past turn the thriller into something closer to a character study. The plot runs on patience, careful preparation and the question of what a man owes for the life he has led. Crime mechanics are handled precisely, while the moral weight is carried entirely by the people caught up in them. What the book delivers: • A hitman narrator whose cover as a writer starts reshaping him • A final job structured around long preparation and mounting risk • A story within the story drawn from the protagonist's own history • Crime plotting joined to questions of guilt and second chances Recommended for readers of literary crime and slow-burn thrillers, issued by Hodder Books and available through Boipoka.