Thomas Perry, author of the Jane Whitefield thrillers and many other books, broke onto the scene with The Butcher’s Boy, the story of a hit man who suddenly finds himself hunted by the mob and Elizabeth Waring, a low-level member of the Justice Department and the only one who believes in the myth of the Butcher’s Boy.
I don’t think it was meant to be a series, but almost a decade later when Thomas Perry got another story idea, he brought the Butcher’s Boy out of self-imposed exile and started the war all over again.
It’s thrilling and not excessively gory despite the tremendous body count — and it’s a lot of fun.
The Butcher’s Boy Series
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The Butcher’s Boy (The Butcher’s Boy Series #1)Author: Perry, Thomas |
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Winner of the 1983 Edgar Award for Best First Novel The audio book is available from the CLEVNET eMedia Collection. Thomas Perry exploded onto the literary scene with The Butcher’s Boy. 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. |
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Sleeping Dogs (The Butcher’s Boy Series #2)Author: Perry, Thomas |
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The audio book is available from the CLEVNET eMedia Collection. 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 . . . |
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The Informant (The Butcher’s Boy Series #3)Author: Perry, Thomas |
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In Thomas Perry’s Edgar-winning debut The Butcher’s Boy, a professional killer betrayed by the Mafia leaves countless mobsters dead and then disappears. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believes he ever existed. Many years later, the Butcher’s Boy finds his peaceful life threatened when a Mafia hit team finally catches up with him. He knows they won’t stop coming and decides to take the fight to their door. Soon Waring, now high up in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department, receives a surprise late night visit from the Butcher’s Boy. Knowing she keeps track of the Mafia, he asks her whom his attackers worked for, offering information that will help her crack an unsolved murder in return. So begins a new assault on organized crime and an uneasy alliance between opposite sides of the law. As the Butcher’s Boy works his way ever closer to his quarry in an effort to protect his new way of life, Waring is in a race against time, either to convince him to become a protected informant or to take him out of commission for good. |
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