Butcher
By: Campbell Armstrong
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781846177231
Subjects: Lou Perlman (Fictitious character); Organized crime; Investigation; Police; Missing persons; Fiction
Description: Detective Sergeant Lou Perlman is an outcast from police HQ, doomed by the chief superintendent to a seemingly infinite 'sick-list'. He's barred from investigating the bloodbath that has rocked the foundations of the city's lower depths. A new man has powered his way to the top of Glasgow's gangster fraternity: Reuben Chuck is a villain who promotes cruelty and murder whilst he pursues an inscrutable religious awakening of his own. A gruesome discovery made in Perlman's own house launches him into an enquiry that becomes fraught with perplexities - the wherabouts of his missing love, Miriam; body parts; a seemingly haunted house; dubious part-time surgeons; a mob of dangerous hooded teenagers; and his own family's history - all leading, inexorably, to the deathly terrain of Reuben Chuck.
Notes: Originally published: London: Allison & Busby, 2006.