The Butcher's Boy

Name: The Butcher's Boy
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Author: Thomas Perry
ISBN: 9781400180196

Author: Thomas Perry

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Unabridged: 10 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/29/2008

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

Murder has always been easy for the Butcher's Boy—it's what he does best and what they pay him for. But after the successful assassination of a senator, he arrives in Las Vegas to collect his fee only to discover he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His survival at stake, he needs to kill them before they kill him.

But first he needs to find out who they are.

As the Butcher's Boy goes to work, police specialists watching the world of organized crime realize something has gone very wrong for the mafia. In the race to discover just what that something is, Elizabeth Waring, a bright young analyst in the Justice Department, is the best chance they have.

But is she good enough to catch the Butcher's Boy?

About Thomas Perry

Thomas Perry is the bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the critically acclaimed Jane Whitefield series, The Old Man, and The Butcher's Boy, which won the Edgar Award. He lives in Southern California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper

This book written in the early ‘80s made me nostalgic for the days when it wasn’t common knowledge that the ammonium nitrate in fertilizer made for a dandy car bomb. Oh, to be that naive again! Speaking of naive...Elizabeth Waring is an analyst for the Justice Department who sifts through reports of......more

Goodreads review by James

The Butcher's Boy is an extremely clever and talented professional hit man. He takes a contract to eliminate the officer of a union and a United States senator because both of them are suspicious about the activities of a shady investment firm headquartered in Las Vegas. He cleverly pulls off both j......more

Goodreads review by Mara

Happily rounding up my 3.5-star rating to 4 because of Elizabeth Waring who, despite being a woman in the man's man's world of 80s government, and proclaiming that “I'm not even a field investigator. I'm a data analyst.” still manages to be pretty kickass. Data nerds FTW!......more

Goodreads review by Jim

Nov 2020: I'm in the middle of a good nonfiction book, but my sinuses are giving me hell. Can't think. What better way than a relaxing reread of a good Perry book? Michael Connelly's introduction was certainly warm & full of praise. This was Perry's first book & blew him away. Me, too. The first tim......more