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Eddie's Boy

By: Thomas Perry
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
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Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den—the States—to figure out why the mafia is after him again, and how to stop them.

Eddie's Boy jumps between Michael's current predicament and the past, between the skillset he now ruthlessly and successfully employs and the training that made him what he is. We glimpse the days before he became 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, to his childhood spent apprenticed to Eddie, a seasoned hired assassin. And we watch him pit two prominent mafia families against each other to eliminate his enemies one by one.

He's meticulous in his approach, using his senior contact in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department for information, without ever allowing her to get too close to his trail. But will he be able to escape this new wave of young contract killers, or will the years finally catch up to him?

©2020 Thomas Perry (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Crime Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Mafia Assassin Fiction Crime
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just made a start on Thomas Perry books, all good after 4.
loved the old man

very entertaining

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Terrific dialogue, easy to empathise with the main chapter bad guy. Unusual to find yourself rooting for an assassin.

Great plot

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