Series: Book 3 in the Butcher's Boy series
Rating: ****
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, General, Thrillers, Lang:en
Summary
“Perry’s novels—the best ones—are
a master class in thriller writing. The Informant should be
the newest addition to that syllabus, read for devouring
first, and analysis thereafter.”—
Los Angeles Times
The Butcher’s Boy is back. Thomas Perry’s
vengeful assassin has returned to play a deadly psychological
game with Elizabeth Waring, the only Justice Department
official who ever believed he existed. The Butcher’s Boy knows Waring can help him hunt
down the Mafia boss who sent a team of hit men to kill
him—and in return he offers her key information that
will help her crack an unsolved murder. 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 deadly enemy in an effort to kill
him first, Waring is in a desperate struggle, either to force
her unlikely ally to become a protected informant, or to take
him out of commission for good. “Excellent . . . Perry offers a compelling,
rapid-fire plot, credible Mafia and FBI secondary characters,
an indictment of self-serving officialdom, and the old
soul-shattering moral dilemma: what is truth?”—
Publishers Weekly
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