"The most significant King novel of recent years." (The Guardian)
"Tense, adventurous, action-packed and psychologically deep." (The Sunday Times)

A decent guy in a bad job.
Billy Summers is an assassin, the best at what he does. A decorated Iraq war veteran, he is one of the best snipers in the world. After work, however, it is absorbed. According to his moral code, he only hunts really bad people. Billy wants to get out for good, but first he has one last job to do.
What could go wrong? Of course everything is. And as Billy tries to put his shattered world back together, he also rescues young Alice, and they end up together on a quest to avenge the crimes of an extremely evil man.
The visionary, exciting book is part war story, part ode to small American towns and the people who live there, and it also presents one of the most impressive and surprising couplets in King's prose. A novel about love, luck, fate and a complex hero who is just one last shot away from redemption.