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false <![CDATA[The Butcher's Boy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171033867m/82966.jpg 82966 13 The Edgar Award–winning novel by the “master of nail-biting suspense”(Los Angeles Times) 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. 3359277 book 1982 The Butcher's Boy total:171|5:61|4:69|3:31|2:8|1:2| 171 692 219 26 4 0 false false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 06:23:41 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 06:24:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 06:37:16 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 06:54:09 -0700 2008
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Pe...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 07:52:26 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 07:12:24 -0800 2008 The Butcher's Boy won the Edgar Award for best first novel. It's a fully mature work, with tight plotting, good characterizations, spare prose, and a consistent tone. It reads like the fourth or fifth novel from a talented thriller writer. Like real life, the events of this no...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 22 12:04:52 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 12:15:39 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 10:56:20 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 10:58:28 -0700 2009
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