![]() ![]() While he’s writing and waiting, Billy also makes friends in that suburban neighborhood - something he normally guards against. King weaves Billy’s novel into this one, first a few paragraphs, then pages and chapters, and it’s a hell of a story. The plan is a bit too elaborate, but Billy goes with it, moving into the house Nick has rented for him in a suburban family neighborhood and into the rented office downtown with a clear view of the courthouse. Nick declines to identify the person who wants Allen killed, but he has an elaborate plan for Billy to move to the city and await Allen’s extradition from California, then shoot him on the courthouse steps. She pepper-sprayed him, and now Joel Allen is sitting in the Los Angeles jail.īilly and Nick don’t meet in Las Vegas to discuss the job, but in a fictional small city that “sits east of the Mississippi and just below the Mason-Dixon line.” More to the point, it’s a city where Joel Allen is wanted for shooting two men, one of them fatally, not on assignment but after losing big in a poker game - and it’s in a death penalty state, where a hitman looking at execution might make a deal and spill some secrets about his employers. ![]() The target, Nick tells him, is also a hitman, but one who has gone off the rails and been arrested for assault after propositioning a feminist writer he mistook for a hooker. ![]() Billy has worked before with the go-between who hires him, a Las Vegas mobster named Nick Majarian. ![]()
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