Eddie's Boy

<b>Thomas Perry</b> is the bestselling author of thirty novels including the Edgar Award-winning<i> The Butcher's Boy</i> and <i>The Old Man</i> recently adapted for television. His first Jane Whitefield novel <i>Vanishing Act</i> was named one of the 100 favourite mysteries of the twentieth century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. He lives in Southern California. Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house and with them an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den - the States - to figure out why the mafia is after him again and how to stop them.<br><br><i>Eddie's Boy</i> jumps between Michael's current predicament and the past as we glimpse the days before he became the Butcher's Boy the highly skilled hit man who exacted revenge on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. He's meticulous in his approach as he attempts to pit two prominent mafia families against each other to eliminate his enemies one by one. But will he be able to escape this new wave of young contract killers or will the years finally catch up to him? Thomas Perry's Edgar Award-winning Butcher's Boy is back and redeploying the violent ways of his youth to escape the new price on his head. Perry makes the distant past as vivid and immediate as the relentlessly paced present The best thing about Thomas Perry's thrillers are the <b>devilishly ingenious</b> schemes his protagonists devise to outwit their pursuers... Perry can really write Perry is <b>so skillful</b> with the old chase-and-pursuit routine creates such interesting characters and writes about them so tellingly one wants more immediately not next year - right now Perry makes the distant past as vivid and immediate as the relentlessly paced present The best thing about Thomas Perry's thrillers are the <b>devilishly ingenious</b> schemes his protagonists devise to outwit their pursuers... Perry can really write Perry is <b>so skillful</b> with the old chase-and-pursuit routine creates such interesting characters and writes about them so tellingly one wants more immediately not next year - right now