內容簡介
內容簡介 史蒂芬.金最新力作Billy Summers是一名職業殺手,但Billy可不是來者不拒,他只殺壞人!現在,Billy決定再幹一票,就金盆洗手。身為伊拉克戰爭的授勳退伍軍人,又是這世上數一數二的狙擊好手,這最後一票應該是萬無一失吧?可惜,Billy沒有這麼好的運氣……------------------從《賓士先生》到《局外人》,從《後來》到《絕筆》,史蒂芬.金的犯罪小說宇宙終於成型!《紐約時報》小說暢銷書排行榜No.1!美國Amazon書店超過50,000名讀者直逼★★★★★壓倒性好評!這是我的第一個故事,也是我的最後一個故事。回憶的深邃,人性的殘酷,命運的險惡,救贖的渺茫……我會一直寫,寫到生命的最後一頁。我11歲,那是我第一次開槍,槍很重,我必須用兩隻手握著,抵在胸膛上。那個男人是媽媽的男友,他殺了我妹妹。而我知道在這個世界上,只有我能救我自己……停下書寫,比利沉浸在過往,文思如湧泉,讓他差點忘了作家的身分只是偽裝。身為頂尖殺手,他已經潛伏在這棟大樓一段時間了,既然偽裝成作家,那就寫寫自己的故事吧。這麼多年來,他只對罪有應得的惡人開槍,而這將是他金盆洗手前的最後一單。端起窗邊的狙擊槍,扣下扳機,任務完成。豈料事情卻沒那麼順利,當他趁亂離開大樓,卻有人追趕而上。比利躲回預先準備的藏身處,決定繼續完成自己的故事。直到某個雨夜,一輛車駛過,不省人事的少女被丟了下來。女孩遭人性侵,渾身是傷,她認出比利就是那個被通緝的殺手,卻一點也不害怕,她覺得是比利救了自己。兩個寂寞的靈魂彼此相依,她讀比利寫的書,比利聽她訴說心事。這裡彷彿就是一座堡壘,讓他們躲著全世界。然而,比利卻絲毫未覺,惡意正在暗處蠢蠢欲動。如果出來跑,總是要還,這一次,比利注定得要賭上自己的生命,才能終結這一切……本中文書介出自《絕筆》皇冠文化出版有限公司出版Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. 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. So what could possibly go wrong?How about everything.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. It’s about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption.You won’t put this story down, and you won’t forget Billy."
作者介紹
作者介紹 Stephen KingStephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes 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, and Doctor Sleep 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.