J.J. Abrams is making a movie out of Stephen King hitman novel Billy Summers

The 2019 King novel focuses on a hired gunman who develops a taste for writing, on account of being a Stephen King protagonist

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be a long love letter to the craft of writing. The plot follows a professional killer doing “one last job” despite being well aware of how rarely “one last jobs” go in crime novels; after he’s forced to go on the lam, he spends his time indulging his talent for writing and forging a bond with a young woman he rescues after she’s a victim of sexual assault. Like many of King’s most recent books, the novel largely eschews any supernatural element .

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