Name: The Butcher's boy
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Author: Michael Connelly
ISBN: 9780812967739

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Perry

Preface by

Michael Connelly

Publisher

Random House Trade

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

0812967739

ISBN13

9780812967739

Synopsis "The Butcher's boy "

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. Praise for The Butcher's Boy "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

Michael Connelly

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American writer born on July 21, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Graduated in Journalism from the University of Florida in 1980, he worked in various media outlets in Fort Lauderdale and Daytona Beach.

After being nominated in 1986 for a Pulitzer for a series of interviews with survivors of the Delta Airlines Flight 191 crash, written in collaboration with two colleagues, he moved to California after accepting a job offer from the Los Angeles Times.

Connelly is a well-known author for his detective novels. Particularly popular is his character Heronymus "Harry" Bosch (named in homage to the Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch), a Los Angeles police detective who appears in more than a dozen of his novels. The novel Blood Work (1998) was later adapted into a film directed and starred by Clint Eastwood.

Throughout his career, he has won well-known awards such as the RBA International Prize for Crime Writing.

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