Sleeping Dogs
by Thomas Perry
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Author: Thomas PerryEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-04-24
ISBN: 080411160X
Number of pages: 308
Publisher: Ivy Books
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Summary: 5 Stars
It's been ten years since the publication of _The Butcher's Boy,_ Perry's award-winning debut novel. It's also been ten years since the title character managed to slip out of the country after laying waste to a number of mafiosi and their minions and he has spent that time in quiet retirement in Bath, England. He's become mildly involved with a titled young woman and when she talks him into taking her to the races down in Brighton, he has the misfortune to be seen and recognized by a young member of a mafia family from back home. It's actually pure chance, but our boy can only assume the contract on him of a decade before is still active. After dealing with the immediate threat in his usual lethal manner, he goes back to America to try to convince the "old men" to simply leave him alone. If they do, then he'll leave them alone. If not, well, . . . he certainly hasn't forgotten how to do his job. Elizabeth Waring, analyst for the Justice Department, suffered ten years ago, too, but now she's been called back in to try to deal with the hit man's return. It's a marvelous story, with fully realized characters and tightly orchestrated, vividly described action, and I can't help thinking the two novels would make an excellent film and a sequel.
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