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The Butcher's Boy
  

The Butcher's Boy (Hardcover)

by Thomas Perry (Author)
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The Edgar Award–winning novel by the “master of nail-biting suspense”(Los Angeles Times)

Thomas Perry exploded onto the literary scene with The Butcher’s Boy. Back in print by popular demand, this spectacular debut, from a writer of “infernal ingenuity” (The New York Times Book Review), includes a new Introduction by bestselling author Michael Connelly.

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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“A stunning debut . . . a brilliantly plotted thriller.”
The Washington Post

“A shrewdly planned and executed thriller.”
The New York Times Book Review

“Thomas Perry has hit the mark.”
Houston Chronicle

“Totally enthralling.”
The New Yorker


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2.0étoiles sur 5 Flat, Jui 23 2004
Par Brian Bella (Oswego, IL United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Butcher's Boy (Paperback)
I found the book to be rather flat. The motives of the unnamed assasin were perfunctory, the heroine was ineffective and I don't think the character of Maureen served any puprose--how did she help the assasin or earn her pay?

In the Introduction, Michael Connelly describes feeling sympathy for the assasin. I did not feel any. The assasin was cold and unsympathetic. Also, by referring to the assasin only as "he", Perry created some pronoun landmines in spots when he tried to juggle two he's and it wasn't clear which he was he (see how confusing that is?).

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent Read, Avril 16 2004
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This review is from: The Butcher's Boy (Paperback)
This is an excellent book. I enjoy reading mysteries and this one had more depth than the current run of the mill bestsellers. Even though it was written a good while back, you cannot tell it.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Thank heaven for another writer of "Page-Turners", Mars 11 2004
Par S. H. Towsley (Fort Wayne, IN & Los Angeles, CA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Butcher's Boy (Paperback)
I thought it was just me! I see a lot of these reviews are describing "The Butcher's Boy" as a page-turner, a novel they couldn't put down, a book they inhaled in 4 hours! That was my precise reaction: "Thank heaven I've found another author of page-turners!" It doesn't happen to me often enough.

What I can't figure out is how Perry writes with such enjoyable economy and still manages to create that magic of gluing the reader to the text. If you are a writer yourself, this question is worth getting to the bottom of.

A mesmerizing tale of a professional killer going about the business of evading his pursuers, "The Butcher's Boy" is a novel that will send you in search of more Thomas Perry books.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Quick thriller, well-constructed but flawed
My library branch head boss likes to recommend the classics of a genre. Before this, she recommended Ken Follett's "Eye of the Needle". Read more
Publié le Déc 26 2003 par mike waugh

4.0étoiles sur 5 An excellent first book.
If you've liked any of Thomas Perry's books, especially the Jane Whitehead series, you'll enjoy this debut novel. Read more
Publié le Aoû 28 2003

5.0étoiles sur 5 A Signature Style
THE BUTCHER'S BOY, Thomas Perry's first in a long line of first-rate thrillers, introduces the reader to Perry's signature style. Read more
Publié le Aoû 21 2003 par Tim Smith

5.0étoiles sur 5 Pure Escapist Fare
BUTCHER'S BOY, Perry's first, introduces the reader to his signature style, characters with keen self awareness and superlative observational skills. Read more
Publié le Aoû 20 2003 par Tim Smith

5.0étoiles sur 5 The book is a Killer-Thriller
Thomas Perry's first novel is a Killer-Thriller! I had read "Sleeping Dogs"(the sequal) before I read "The Butchers Boy". Both books are great. Read more
Publié le Jui 22 2003 par montralatrice

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