Eddie's Boy: A Butcher's Boy Novel

ISBN: 0802157777

Author: Perry, Thomas

Condition: New

Thomas Perrys Edgar Award-winning Butchers Boy is back and redeploying the violent ways of his youth to escape a new reward on his head in Eddies BoyMichael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michaels life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lions den-the States-to figure out why the mafia is after him again, and how to stop them. Eddies Boy jumps between Michaels current predicament and the past, between the skillset he now ruthlessly and successfully employs and the training that made him what he is. We glimpse the days before he became the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war, to his childhood spent apprenticed to Eddie, a seasoned hired assassin. And we watch him pit two prominent mafia families against each other to eliminate his enemies one by one.Hes meticulous in his approach, using an old contact turned adversary in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department for information, without ever allowing her to get too close to his trail. But will he be able to escape this new wave of young contract killers, or will the years finally catch up to him?Perrys Edgar Award-winning Butchers Boy returns in full force in this exhilarating new installment to the beloved series.