Rhys Kimmitt brings a unique, queer interpretation to the contract killer trope in his stunning debut thriller, Kill Boy.
Rafi Smith is a trans man living an isolated existence in Los Angeles. By day, he works as a content moderator, enduring a relentless stream of digital atrocities for a meager wage that barely covers the interest on his massive debt following back alley gender confirmation surgery. In order to keep the debt collectors at bay, Rafi moonlights as a contract killer, weaponizing his desensitization to violence for his own ends. All the while, Rafi has been driven into a numb insomnia having been plagued by vicious night terrors in which infant children endure unthinkable suffering.
With the contracts drying up and debtors closing in, Rafi leaps at an opportunity from an anonymous client that will clear his debts and then some. Tasked with infiltrating a religious terror cell and assassinating their leader, his client among their highest ranks, Rafi is rapidly pulled in by the cult's enigmatic leader, Michael, who claims to hear the voice of God and see Rafi's dreams. When Rafi discovers the horrors hiding under Michael's prophetic exterior, he is caught between his own moral compass, the goal of his mission, and the near-irresistable allure of the assumed divine.
Dark, propulsive, and deeply human,Kill Boy will challenge you to re-evaluate your genre expectations and take you on a journey of love, identity, and belief through the eyes of a contract killer.
