false 6505314 1 The world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful new historical thriller by Robert McCammon. The latest entry in the popular Matthew Corbett series, which began with Speaks the Nightbird and continued in The Queen of Bedlam, Mister Slaughter opens in the emerging metropolis of New York City in 1702, and proceeds to take both Matthew and the reader on an unforgettable journey of horror, violence, and personal discovery.<br><br>The journey begins when Matthew, now an apprentice problem solver for the London-based Herrald Agency, accepts an unusual and hazardous commission. Together with his colleague, Hudson Greathouse, he agrees to escort the notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter from an asylum outside Philadelphia to the docks of New York. Along the way, Slaughter makes his captors a surprising--and extremely tempting--offer. Their response to this offer will alter the course of the novel, setting in motion a series of astonishing, ultimately catastrophic events.<br><br>Mister Slaughter is at once a classic portrait of an archetypal serial killer and an exquisitely detailed account of a fledgling nation still in the process of inventing itself. Suspenseful, illuminating, never less than compulsively readable, it is, by any measure, an extraordinary achievement, the largest accomplishment to date from one of our most gifted--and necessary--writers. 6696903 31 1 2010 Mister Slaughter total:1|5:0|4:1|3:0|2:0|1:0| 1 4 12 1 4 0 false false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 18:32:39 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 14:09:50 -0800 2009 http://reviews.thedeepening.com/2009/11/...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Nov 26 21:58:33 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 21:58:33 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 26 18:40:12 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 18:40:12 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 11 19:05:17 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 19:05:17 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 06 03:49:45 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 03:49:45 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 04 08:35:48 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 08:35:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 01 19:53:21 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 19:53:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 15 09:03:05 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 09:03:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 05 03:06:05 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 03:06:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 10:12:13 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 10:12:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 07 22:23:48 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 00:47:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 29 09:24:43 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 09:24:43 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6505314