The Butcher's Boy

✍ Scribed by Perry, Thomas; Connelly, Michael

• Book ID: 106931359
• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 573 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781588362964

✦ Synopsis

Review

“A stunning debut . . . a brilliantly plotted thriller.” —_The Washington Post_

“A shrewdly planned and executed thriller.” —_The New York Times Book Review_

“Thomas Perry has hit the mark.” —_Houston Chronicle_

“Totally enthralling.” —_The New Yorker_

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Product Description

The Edgar Award–winning novel by the “master of nail-biting suspense”(_Los Angeles Times_)

Thomas Perry exploded onto the literary scene with The Butcher’s Boy. Back in print by popular demand, this spectacular debut, from a writer of “infernal ingenuity” (_The New York Times Book Review_), includes a new Introduction by bestselling author Michael Connelly.

Murder has always been easy for the Butcher’s Boy—it’s what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of police specialists who watch the world of organized crime, but though everyone knows that something big is going on, only Elizabeth Waring, a bright young analyst in the Justice Department, works her way closer to the truth, and to the frightening man behind it.

From the Trade Paperback edition.