The Slaughter Man: A Novel: 2 (Max Wolfe Novels 2)

Max Wolfe is back-the two-fisted homicide detective with a small daughter and dog waiting for him at home and a crazed serial killer waiting for him somewhere out in the pitiless London streets.. On New Years Day a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon-a gun used to stun cattle before they are butchered-leads Max to a dusty corner of Scotland Yards Black Museum devoted to a mass murderer who 30 years ago was known as The Slaughter Man. But The Slaughter Man has done his time and is now old and dying. Is he really back in the killing game? And was the slaughter of a happy family a mindless killing spree or a grotesque homage by a copycat killer or a contract hit designed to frame a dying man? Max desperately needs to find the missing child and stop the killer before he destroys another innocent family-or finds his way to Detective Wolfes own front door.. The Slaughter Man is another taut thriller from acclaimed international bestseller Tony Parsons.