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Billy Summers

Autor Stephen King
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iun 2023

Traducerea acestui volum din limba engleză păstrează cadența militară și precizia chirurgicală a limbajului lui Stephen King, oferind cititorului român o experiență viscerală a suspansului american autentic. Notăm cu interes cum „regele horror-ului” abandonează monștrii de sub pat pentru a explora monștrii cu chip uman. Billy Summers nu este doar un asasin; este un lunetist de elită, un veteran de război și un artist al dispariției. Premisa este tensionată: o ultimă lovitură, o plată generoasă și o țintă care merită să moară. Dar în lumea lui King, planurile perfecte se dezintegrează rapid. Descoperim aici un amestec atipic de proză de război și scrisoare de dragoste către micile orașe americane, unde soarta și norocul se ciocnesc violent. Pe același raft cu The Killing Kind de Chris Holm, cartea se distinge prin profunzimea psihologică a anti-eroului și prin refuzul de a glorifica violența fără un scop moral. Față de universul fragmentat din Skeleton Crew sau realismul magic din The Gwendy Trilogy (Boxed Set), acest roman polițist demonstrează versatilitatea autorului. Ritmul este alert, dar King își face timp să construiască o relație emoționantă între personaje, transformând o misiune de asasinat într-o căutare disperată a mântuirii. Totul pare să meargă prost, iar tensiunea crește cu fiecare pagină, până la un deznodământ care forțează limitele genului thriller.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781668010129
ISBN-10: 1668010127
Pagini: 608
Dimensiuni: 107 x 190 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care caută un roman polițist solid, ancorat în realitate, fără elemente paranormale. Câștigați o poveste despre moralitate în zone gri, scrisă de un maestru al narațiunii care știe să dozeze adrenalina. Este recomandarea ideală dacă v-a plăcut Mr. Mercedes și doriți să vedeți cum un asasin plătit poate deveni un personaj pentru care merită să vă faceți griji.


Despre autor

Stephen King (născut în 1947) este unul dintre cei mai prolifici și influenți scriitori contemporani, cunoscut la nivel mondial pentru contribuțiile sale la literatura horror, polițistă și fantasy. Cu peste 350 de milioane de exemplare vândute, King a primit distincții prestigioase precum Medalia pentru Contribuție Distinsă la Literele Americane și National Medal of Arts. Deși este adesea asociat cu supranaturalul, lucrările sale recente, inclusiv Billy Summers și seria Bill-Hodges-Serie, demonstrează măiestria sa în genul thriller și crime, concentrându-se pe psihologia umană și pe detaliile vieții cotidiene din America.


Descriere scurtă

Master storyteller Stephen King, whose "restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained" (The New York Times Book Review), presents an unforgettable and relentless #1 New York Times bestseller about a good guy in a bad job.

Chances are, if you're a target of Billy Summers, two immutable truths apply: You'll never even know what hit you, and you're really getting what you deserve. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business?but he'll do the job only if the assignment is a truly bad person. But now, time is catching up with him, and Billy wants out. Before he can do that though, there's one last hit, which promises a generous payday at the end of the line even as things don't seem quite on the level here. Given that Billy is among the most talented snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, and a virtual Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done, what could possibly go wrong? How about everything.

Part war story and part love letter to small-town America and the people who live there, this spectacular thriller of luck, fate, and love will grip readers with its electrifying narrative, as a complex antihero with one last shot at redemption must avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. You won't ever forget this stunning novel from master storyteller Stephen King…and you will never forget Billy.

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The perfect crime doesn't exist. The perfect getaway . . . that's another story.

Billy Summers is a killer for hire. He's among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet who can blend into any neighbourhood and disappear after the shot is taken. But he'll only agree to a contract if the target is a truly bad guy.

Now Billy wants out. But first he's offered one final job - an offer which is just too big to refuse.

As the days count down to the hit, Billy senses something is wrong. He doesn't yet know just how wrong, or about the woman who will help him try to set things right.

Part thriller, part war story, part lyrical portrait of small-town America, Billy Summers is about a good man in a bad job, with one last shot at redemption

'A compelling and engrossing read' - Sunday Express

'Adventurously shape-shifting yet always disciplined . . . dazzling' - The Sunday Times

Recenzii

A dazzlingly shapeshifting novel that, like its antihero, only pretends to be easy to pigeonhole. Disciplined but adventurous, equally good at action scenes and in-depth psychology
A thriller with a surprisingly heartfelt and redemptive ending, Billy Summers is a compelling and engrossing read
King's killer instinct hits the mark again... Without abandoning his blood-chilling propensities, he has transformed himself into one of the most adroit and accomplished crime writers in the US. King has negotiated the shifting of gears with the kind of panache that befits the "ultimate storyteller" (for once, publisher hyperbole is justified).
His best book in years . . . He may always be considered a horror novelist, but King is doing the best work of his later career when the ghosts are packed away and the monsters are all too human
Storytelling genius
Adventurously shape-shifting yet always disciplined, it's a dazzling return to form
Devoured it ... it's such a page-turner
It's a novel with a heart-stopping, heartfelt conclusion
Stephen King is primarily known as a master of horror, but at heart he is a hardcore thriller writer
A cracking noir
A brilliantly enjoyable novel with a thrilling conclusion
Stephen King combines a story of corruption in high places with a lyrical portrait of small-town life and a bittersweet love story
Disciplined but adventurous, equally good at action scenes and psychology, King shows with this novel that, at 74, he's . . . at the top of his game
[An] excellent crime caper

Notă biografică

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.