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The Informant

A Butcher's Boy Novel

by Thomas Perry
Michael Kramer
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Married and living in England under the name Michael Schaeffer, the assassin known as the Butcher's Boy is the target of a Mafia hit team sent to exact revenge for his deadly campaign against the Balacontano family years earlier. Schaeffer kills all three attackers, but he knows more will come and needs to find whoever sent them to end it once and for all.


Soon Elizabeth Waring, now high up in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department, receives a surprise late-night visit from the Butcher's Boy. Knowing she keeps track of the Mafia, he asks her who the three men work for. Not knowing they have been murdered, she gives him a name: Frank Tosca, an aspirant to the Balacontano throne. In exchange, he tells her about a murder Tosca committed over twenty years ago. So begins a new assault on organized crime, and the uneasy alliance between the Butcher's Boy and Waring, who trade current information for old secrets.


As the Butcher's Boy works his way ever closer to his quarry in an effort to protect his new way of life, Waring finds herself in a race against time, either to convince him to become a protected informant or to take him out of commission for good.

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  • Release date

    May 5, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781400199556
      • File size: 305480 KB
      • Duration: 10:36:24

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from March 7, 2011
      Edgar-winner Perry's excellent third Butcher's Boy novel (after Sleeping Dogs) pits the Butcher's Boy (aka Michael Schaeffer), an impeccably effective hit man, against his old nemesis, Elizabeth Waring, an impeccably honest Justice Department official. Though Waring's boss, arrogant political appointee Dale Hunsecker, tries to hamstring her, Waring wants to bolster her 20-year pursuit of Mafia bosses by turning the Butcher's Boy into America's most important informant. Waring soon enters into an intricate pas de deux with a man who considers death a buy-sell commodity. Meanwhile, this icy yet strangely appealing killer, who reads Waring as well as she reads him, methodically murders capo after capo and their "made men" across the country, the only way he can safely return to his quiet retirement in England with his beloved wife, Meg. Perry offers a compelling, rapid-fire plot, credible Mafia and FBI secondary characters, an indictment of self-serving officialdom, and the old soul-shattering moral dilemma: what is truth?

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Michael Kramer's narration style complements the story of the Butcher's Boy, a professional hit man who was betrayed by the Mafia and exacted revenge by killing many of its members. Of course, those who remained left no stone unturned in their search for the killer, who has remained secluded for many years. Eventually, the Mafia finds him, and from that moment the novel takes off. Kramer tends to be low-key, using subtle changes in tone and inflection to define the characters, particularly organized crime prosecutor Elizabeth Waring. At times, however, Kramer embraces the story's emotional tides, fully defining Perry's characters and highlighting his well-written prose. D.J.S. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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