The cover story is that Billy is a writer named David Lockridge who has been tasked by his agent to stay there and go to the office and write each day in an attempt to get him to meet his deadline. The job requires Billy to spend quite some time as a resident in a small town where some office space has been rented out for Billy's use. Joel has been claiming that he has some valuable information that the police wants in order to make some type of deal, and apparently someone doesn't want him talking, which is why Billy has been hired to take him out. He's wanted in the area for murdering a guy who won a bunch of money off of him in a poker game. The target, Joel Allen, is also a hitman. Nick, who Billy has worked for many times before, offers Billy one last job - one that pays $500K upfront and $1.5M after it's done. He dies.īilly Summers is a hitman and former Marine sniper who only accepts jobs killing 'bad' men and wants to retire altogether. One the way out, the mother of one of the guys Billy injured comes out of nowhere and shoots Billy. Klerke likes young girls, so Alice dresses up as a teenager so she and Billy can confront Klerke. Nick tells him the one who ordered the job was Klerke (who wanted Billy dead since it was one less loose end). He soon meets Alice, 20, who has just been sexually assaulted, and he helps her punish her attackers (non-lethally). Sure enough, the job goes as planned, they try to kill him, but Billy gets away.

However, Billy starts to suspect Nick intends to kill him when the job is done. He accepts one final job (from Nick) before he retires with a major payday attached. The one-paragraph version: Billy Summers, 44, is a hitman who only kills 'bad' men.

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