Thomas Perry: Sleeping Dogs (USA 2011)

From the Publisher:
He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, there's been a price on his head.

Now, after a decade, they've found him. The Butcher's Boy escapes back to the States with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him... until the Mafia, the cops, the FBI, and the damn Justice Department want his hide... until he's locked into a cross-country odyssey of fear and death that could tear his world to pieces...

Thomas Perry: Sleeping Dogs. A Novel of Suspense. Ivy eBook, ISBN: 9780307781345 (January, 2011), 902 KB (ca. 322 p.), $7.99.

Thomas Perry: Sleeping Dogs (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, there's been a price on his head.

Now, after a decade, they've found him. The Butcher's Boy escapes back to the States with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him... until the Mafia, the cops, the FBI, and the damn Justice Department want his hide... until he's locked into a cross-country odyssey of fear and death that could tear his world to pieces...

Thomas Perry: Sleeping Dogs. Ivy Books, ISBN: 080411160X (April, 1993), 308 p., $6.99.

Thomas Perry: Sleeping Dogs (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
They call him the Butcher's Boy.
Right now, he's a semiretired American businessman living in Bath, England--a quiet, nondescript guy who dates an eccentric aristocrat and occasionally mingles with the hounds-and-horses set.

Ten years ago, he was someone else: the best Mafia hit man money could buy, a true professional, the guy you called when you wanted the job done right. But then some clients tried to double-cross him and the Butcher's Boy was forced to strike back killing a few people, starting a mob war, framing a Mafia boss for murder. Ever since, there's been a price on his head, so he's been hiding out in England.

And then one day at the racetrack a soldier from the Talerese family tries to kill him.

As the Butcher's Boy sees it, there's only one thing to do: head back to the States and kill Tony Talerese before word of his whereabouts leaks to the other families. But what starts out as a simple job soon becomes a nightmarish cross-country odyssey. Hunted by Mafia hit teams, local police, the FBI, and a savvy Justice Department lawyer named Elizabeth Waring, the Butcher's Boy is forced to resume his old profession -- with a vengeance.

Sleeping Dogs has it all: full-throttle action, razor-sharp dialogue, white-knuckle suspense, deftly drawn secondary characters, and one of crime fiction's most unusual- and brilliantly realized- leading men, a cold-blooded professional killer whom you nonetheless find yourself rooting for. Here is Edgar-winner Thomas Perry's breakthrough bestseller.

Thomas Perry: Sleeping Dogs. A Novel. Random House, ISBN: 0679410643 (April, 1992), 337 p., $22.00.

Thomas Perry: Sleeping Dogs (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
They call him the Butcher's Boy.
Right now, he's a semiretired American businessman living in Bath, England--a quiet, nondescript guy who dates an eccentric aristocrat and occasionally mingles with the hounds-and-horses set.

Ten years ago, he was someone else: the best Mafia hit man money could buy, a true professional, the guy you called when you wanted the job done right. But then some clients tried to double-cross him and the Butcher's Boy was forced to strike back killing a few people, starting a mob war, framing a Mafia boss for murder. Ever since, there's been a price on his head, so he's been hiding out in England.

And then one day at the racetrack a soldier from the Talerese family tries to kill him.

As the Butcher's Boy sees it, there's only one thing to do: head back to the States and kill Tony Talerese before word of his whereabouts leaks to the other families. But what starts out as a simple job soon becomes a nightmarish cross-country odyssey. Hunted by Mafia hit teams, local police, the FBI, and a savvy Justice Department lawyer named Elizabeth Waring, the Butcher's Boy is forced to resume his old profession -- with a vengeance.

Sleeping Dogs has it all: full-throttle action, razor-sharp dialogue, white-knuckle suspense, deftly drawn secondary characters, and one of crime fiction's most unusual- and brilliantly realized- leading men, a cold-blooded professional killer whom you nonetheless find yourself rooting for. Here is Edgar-winner Thomas Perry's breakthrough bestseller.

Thomas Perry: Sleeping Dogs. A Novel. Random House, ISBN: 0679410643 (April, 1992), 337 p., $22.00.