title: The Informant (Butcher's Boy)
author:  Thomas Perry 
description: In Thomas Perrys Edgar-winning debut <i>The Butchers Boy</i>, a professional killer betrayed by the Mafia leaves countless mobsters dead and then disappears. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believes he ever existed. Many years later, the Butchers Boy finds his peaceful life threatened when a Mafia hit team finally catches up with him. He knows they wont stop coming and decides to take the fight to their door.<br /><br />Soon Waring, now high up in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department, receives a surprise latenight visit from the Butchers Boy. Knowing she keeps track of the Mafia, he asks her whom his attackers worked for, offering information that will help her crack an unsolved murder in return. So begins a new assault on organized crime and an uneasy alliance between opposite sides of the law. As the Butchers Boy works his way ever closer to his quarry in an effort to protect his new way of life, Waring is in a race against time, either to convince him to become a protected informantor to take him out of commission for good.
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  EDDIE’S BOY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by Thomas Perry
  
  
  The Butcher’s Boy
  
  
  Metzger’s Dog
  
  
  Big Fish
  
  
  Island
  
  
  Sleeping Dogs
  
  
  Vanishing Act
  
  
  Dance for the Dead
  
  
  Shadow Woman
  
  
  The Face-Changers
  
  
  Blood Money
  
  
  Death Benefits
  
  
  Pursuit
  
  
  Dead Aim
  
  
  Nightlife
  
  
  Silence
  
  
  Fidelity
  
  
  Runner
  
  
  Strip
  
  
  The Informant
  
  
  Poison Flower
  
  
  The Boyfriend
  
  
  A String of Beads
  
  
  Forty Thieves
  
  
  The Old Man
  
  
  The Bomb Maker
  
  
  The Burglar
  
  
  A Small Town
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THOMAS
  
  
  PERRY
  
  
  EDDIE’S BOY
  
  
  A NOVEL
  
  
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