Butcher’s Boy Series

With the police hot on his tail, an infamous hit man flees to the United States to exact revenge in this “exciting [and] suspenseful” (The Washington Post Book World) sequel to the Edgar Award winner The Butcher’s Boy.

“A bravura performance.”—Chicago Tribune

He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he’s a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher’s Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, there’s been a price on his head.

Now, after a decade, they’ve found him. The Butcher’s Boy escapes back to the States with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him . . . until the Mafia, the cops, the FBI, and the damn Justice Department want his hide . . . until he’s locked into a cross-country odyssey of fear and death that could tear his world to pieces. . . .

EDGAR AWARD WINNER • After a high-level assassination, a professional hitman becomes a target himself and must fight to survive—while evading the government analyst who’s suddenly on his trail—in this “brilliantly plotted thriller” (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry.

With an Introduction by Michael Connelly

“Shrewdly planned and executed.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Totally enthralling.”—The New Yorker
“Thomas Perry has hit the mark.”—Houston Chronicle

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.