Billy Summers Audiobook

Quotes

• “Narrator Paul Sparks’s performance is so perfect it challenges the listener to stop listening. Sure—just TRY to turn it off! Sparks is fantastic, whether he’s giving voice to a fat Mafioso called Pig or a young rape victim…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

  — AudioFile

• “A noirish, unputdownable thriller.”

  — People

• “His eye for detail, especially at the dreckier end of roadside culture, is sharp…lively and vivid.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “The biggest crime here, however, would be missing out on Billy Summers and King’s new reign as a pulp genius.”

  — USA Today

• “A delightfully tense crime thriller…somehow both hard-boiled and human.”

  — AV Club

• “To see the undisputed master of horror shift into the realm of noir thrillers is proof that King can still surprise and astound us, all these decades later.”

  — Esquire

• “Murder most foul and mayhem most entertaining. Another worthy page-turner.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “[A] tripwire-taut thriller.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “King has multiple novels in play here—thriller, at least two coming-of-age stories, and a knockout road novel…complete with a perfectly orchestrated, moving ending.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• Narrator Paul Sparks's performance is so perfect it challenges the listener to stop listening. Sure—just TRY to turn it off! Sparks is fantastic, whether he's giving voice to a fat Mafioso called Pig or a young rape victim who turns to Billy for help or the other colorful characters from King's work. While Billy's character is a tad far-fetched, it fits the definition of antihero—think Showtime's Dexter. And because the story is told in the first person, listeners see the decent person inside the man with blood on his hands."