Sleeping Dogs

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 B... Read more

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 . . .
"Exciting . . . Suspenseful . . . A thriller''s job is to make you turn the pages until the story''s done and your eyes hurt and the clock says 3 a.m. . . . I wouldn''t try to grab this one away from somebody only half-way through. No telling what might happen."
-- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World Less