Years later, the button box reentered Gwendy’s life. Pushing any of its eight colored buttons promised death and destruction. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. To see the undisputed master of horror shift into the realm of noir thrillers is proof that King can still surprise and astound us, all these decades later.The final book in the New York Times bestselling Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar.

Things go south in spectacularly bad fashion, making for a characteristically King thriller about luck, fate, and redemption. 'King's latest endeavor begins with a familiar premise: decorated veteran Billy Summers, a principled hit man on the eve of retirement, agrees to do one last job. Another worthy page-turner from a protean master.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 'The ever prolific King moves from his trademark horror into the realm of the hard-boiled noir thriller.Murder most foul and mayhem most entertaining. This is another outstanding outing from a writer who consistently delivers more than his readers expect.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) ' tripwire-taut thriller.King meticulously lays out the details of Billy's trade, his Houdini-style escapes, and his act to look simpler than he is, but the novel's main strength is a story within a story. You won't put this story down, and you won't forget Billy. It's about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption. This spectacular can't-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man.

Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. From legendary storyteller and #1 bestseller Stephen King, whose 'restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained,' ( The New York Times Book Review) comes a thrilling new novel about a good guy in a bad job.īilly Summers is a man in a room with a gun.

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