num_pages: 313
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Butcher's Boy
titlecomplete: The Butcher's Boy (Butcher's Boy, #1)
genres: Audiobook, Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Adventure, Fiction, Action
ratings_count: 7271
series: Butcher's Boy
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: CWA New Blood Dagger, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 3. Platz International
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks