Sleeping Dogs (Butcher's Boy)

ISBN: 080411160X

Author: Perry, Thomas

Condition: Used

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 Butchers Boy.A bravura performance.-Chicago TribuneHe came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says hes 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 Butchers Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, theres been a price on his head.Now, after a decade, theyve found him. The Butchers 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 hes locked into a cross-country odyssey of fear and death that could tear his world to pieces. . . .