![]() ![]() The stakes are high and so is the payment. Billy is hired to kill Allen-a “bad guy” with a catalogue of crimes to his name-before he can talk. Someone whom Nick doesn’t name wants Allen silenced. It seems that Allen is attempting to make a plea deal to commute his sentence from death to life in prison. He somehow has an expensive lawyer and is in solitary confinement to protect him from attack. When the novel opens, Allen is fighting extradition from LA to Red Bluff. In Red Bluff, Allen will face the death penalty. This town "sits east of the Mississippi and just below the Mason-Dixon Line" (9). ![]() ![]() The other charge is for the first-degree murder of a man after a poker game in Red Bluff, a small town in a southern border state. The LA charge is for the sexual assault of a “lady writer” and “Me Too chick” whom he mistook for a sex worker and attacked (7). The target of Billy’s last hit is a man named Joel Allen, another hitman who is currently in jail in Los Angeles. This guide refers to the paperback edition published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2022.Ĭontent Warning: This novel contains depictions of sexual violence and rape, allusions to pedophilia and child abuse, graphic violence, and bigoted and racist language, including racial slurs (none of which are directly quoted in this guide). Billy Summers was first published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2021. ![]()
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