The proposed payment is more than twenty times higher than anything he’s ever made before - which sets off a few alarms in his mind - and he’s going to have to spend a lot of time in Red Bluff. It brings him to Red Bluff, a moderate-sized city in an unnamed red state just below the Mason-Dixon line, east of the Mississippi. He’s read all the greats - part of his ongoing effort to try to figure out what defines a good person or a bad one. He might carry around an Archie comic digest as part of his cover, but by night he’s grappling with Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola. Despite playing dumb around the people who hire him so they’ll underestimate him, he is, in fact, very smart. One last job and he’s done.īilly knows all about the trope of the last heist going bad. Now, at the ripe old age of 44, he’s looking to retire. He can hit targets from an incredible distance and then vanish like Houdini without being identified or caught. He’s not a sociopath driven to kill - he’s just good with a gun. His only condition is that his victims have to be demonstrably bad men. Thus begins Billy’s career as an elite hitman. One of his former Marine friends asks him to kill someone. Instead of re-upping, he tries to find work back in the States. By the time he’s eighteen, he’s a sniper with the Marines in Iraq, where he notches up another two dozen kills. The first time Billy Summers killed a man, he was barely twelve.
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