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A review by mojoshivers
The Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry
4.0
I like when books are about two different individuals approaching a mystery from two different directions and they DON’T eventually meet up to put their resources together to figure it out. Two sides of the same coin—it makes for a better story when the solution to the mystery can be had from different angles.
That’s what this story is, two different trying to understand who is bumping off mob bosses and what it has to do with a low-level investment firm. On one hand, you have an analyst from the Department of Justice who’s figuring out the plot from all the usual investigative angles of the government. And, on the other hand, you have the Butcher’s Boy, a hitman for hire who wanders into the mob war brewing when they see him and his ruthless reputation in town when the war kicks off. Figuring he’s involved, the hit man is forced to figure out the plot on his own and take care of business in his own criminal manner, namely killing off key players and gift-wrapping the evidence of the shady dealings for the police and government agencies to find.
And never the twain shall meet. Well, that’s not true. In a bit of irony the two people who figure out just happen to end up on a flight to London on vacation, not realizing they are two people who survived the same ordeal and surmised what was going on in the process.
That’s what this story is, two different trying to understand who is bumping off mob bosses and what it has to do with a low-level investment firm. On one hand, you have an analyst from the Department of Justice who’s figuring out the plot from all the usual investigative angles of the government. And, on the other hand, you have the Butcher’s Boy, a hitman for hire who wanders into the mob war brewing when they see him and his ruthless reputation in town when the war kicks off. Figuring he’s involved, the hit man is forced to figure out the plot on his own and take care of business in his own criminal manner, namely killing off key players and gift-wrapping the evidence of the shady dealings for the police and government agencies to find.
And never the twain shall meet. Well, that’s not true. In a bit of irony the two people who figure out just happen to end up on a flight to London on vacation, not realizing they are two people who survived the same ordeal and surmised what was going on in the process.