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“Perry’s novels—the best ones—are a master class in thriller writing. The Informant should be the newest addition to that syllabus, read for devouring first, and analysis thereafter.”—Los Angeles Times
The Butcher’s Boy is back. Thomas Perry’s vengeful assassin has returned to play a deadly psychological game with Elizabeth Waring, the only Justice Department official who ever believed he existed.
The Butcher’s Boy knows Waring can help him hunt down the Mafia boss who sent a team of hit men to kill him—and in return he offers her key information that will help her crack an unsolved murder. So begins a new assault on organized crime and an uneasy alliance between opposite sides of the law. As the Butcher’s Boy works his way ever closer to his deadly enemy in an effort to kill him first, Waring is in a desperate struggle, either to force her unlikely ally to become a protected informant, or to take him out of commission for good.
“Excellent . . . 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?”—Publishers Weekly
- Sales Rank: #311628 in Books
- Published on: 2012-05-01
- Released on: 2012-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 5.50" w x .75" l, .66 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
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46 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
It's murder being a murderer
By mrliteral
As I was beginning Thomas Perry's The Informant, it occurred to me that among crimes, murder may not be the worst (at least in the fictional world). After all, you can have a such as Perry's Butcher's Boy who is at least somewhat likeable; on the other hand, there aren't too many rapists who come off as endearing. Of course, it helps that the Butcher's Boy - who operates in this book under the name Schaeffer - is really only killing other criminals, particularly some rather unpleasant mobsters.
The novel is a follow-up to Perry's debut novel, The Butcher's Boy (which I have not read; this is actually my first Perry book). Two decades after that book, Schaeffer is living a quiet life in England. He's happily married to a woman who understands (to some extent) his past and he's retired from the hit man game. Unfortunately, there are still plenty of mobsters who want him dead, so when he is attacked near his home, he is forced to go back to the U.S. and eliminate the mob boss who ordered his death.
This boss, Frank Tosca, is making a play to head the whole Mafia, and killing Schaeffer would go a long way to reaching this goal. As part of his plan, he creates an alliance with other bosses to put a bounty out on Schaeffer. Soon it becomes apparent that stopping Tosca will not be enough; the Butcher's Boy will need to terrorize the whole Mafia and stay alive long enough to make his enemies decide he isn't worth the effort of hunting. Part of Schaeffer's plans involves Elizabeth Waring, an Organized Crime official in the Justice Department who has been Schaeffer's adversary in the past. Both Schaeffer and Waring will try using each other for their own ends; Schaeffer to get back to his quiet life and Waring to shut down the Mafia.
This is a fun read but definitely one with a high body count; I didn't take a full tally, but including flashbacks, it easily gets into the dozens. The Informant is reminiscent of the Donald Westlake/Richard Stark series of Parker novels as it deals with a totally professional criminal who will stop at nothing to achieve his goal yet never goes out of his way to hurt an innocent person (but also doesn't allow anyone to get in his way). But unlike the Parker books, the Butcher's Boy is not really a series character, so you can't feel assured he'll live to the end. What does happen at the end? You'll have to read this to find out.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
A fine entry in the series, but start with the first!
By Merlin63
The Informant is the third in the series which began with the 1983 Edgar Award winning novel The Butcher's Boy ,which is one of the finest debut mystery novels I've ever read. In it, we first meet the tittle character and are treated to a delicious combination of inventiveness and sheer ruthlessness in the art of killing for hire.
This third novel in the series has none of the former, but plenty of the latter, and takes into account the passage of time. He's grown older, slower, gets tired more quickly than in his youth. But he's kept himself in shape, and his sharpness and awareness has not dimmed with time.
What I love about the Butcher's Boy series is the prose is spare and lean and suits the character perfectly. Somewhat reminiscent of the The Continental Op series by Dashiell Hammett, the titular character is a bit of a cypher and requires the reader to fill in the character details, thus making your experience and perception of him unique. For as much as I'd love to see these books turned into movies, you could never cast them with a big name movie star. The star's box office draw would derail one of the central themes of these stories, which is that the Butcher's Boy could be anybody and blends into the crown as quickly and mysteriously as he emerged from it.
What your left with then, is a man who's all about the job. A job he is exceedingly good at. Is he a good person? A bad person? An emotionally dissociative immoral killer who's only good at his job and nothing else? That question is sort of answered, but un-satisfyingly in my opinion.
And then there is the matter of pacing. Which is fine for 9/10th's of the book. It moves along at a rapid pace as befits this sort of novel, but the conclusion seems rushed and a little too neat. In this book, Thomas Perry does a great job in setting up ever increasingly larger roadblocks for his character to navigate, until the end, where he seemingly builds a brick wall and then decides, "Nah. I think I'll take the shortcut instead."
Still, it's a fun read. A brisk read. A beach summer book, with short chapters that let you stop and start and read on lunch breaks, and let you pick up the thread and pace easily enough when you next crack it open.
But if you want to read a great book, read the first one, The Butcher's Boy. The Informant, much like the second book in the series Sleeping Dogs is like Lethal Weapon II and III. They're fun. They let you revisit the characters, but somehow, everything about that first experience you had with them seems better. The stakes were higher, the characters more well defined and more unpredictable.
I recommend it, if you've read the other two books. If not, go back and read the first. This one will keep until then.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
"There was a simple clarity to killing...."
By E. Bukowsky
One of Thomas Perry's most iconic characters is "The Butcher's Boy," a professional hit man with an impressive resume. In his prime, he was the go-to guy for gangsters who wanted to get rid of their enemies. The Butcher's Boy (who now goes by the name Michael Schaeffer) is mentally tough, remorseless, practical, and a perfectionist who stays alive by taking nothing for granted. He is a master of weaponry and surveillance, is good at blending into the background, can bypass most alarm systems, and has a sixth sense that alerts him to subtle clues in his environment. Although he can improvise when necessary, he prefers to plan ahead. He does not toy with his victims; he strangles, shoots, or stabs them, and then quickly vanishes.
In "The Informant," Michael is in his fifties, and has lived in England for years with Meg, his beautiful and aristocratic wife. He prefers a quiet existence to his adrenaline-fueled and violent younger days. Unfortunately, ten years earlier, he was spotted by a thug who recognized him, and more recently, three men tried to kill Michael and his wife in their home. Michael returns to the States to see if he can rout his adversaries once and for all. He embarks on a one-man killing spree, and Elizabeth Waring, who works for the Justice Department, sees an opportunity to take down various crime figures whom she has been after for years. Without her boss's permission, she tries to get Michael to turn informant in return for federal protection.
Perry keeps his story moving briskly with well-choreographed action and chase scenes, exciting confrontations, and a large body count. It is entertaining to watch Michael meticulously prepare for each step of his journey. With his savvy and willingness to take measured risks, he could have been a huge success had he used his skills, say, as an investment banker on Wall Street. Perry's dialogue is amusing and the author keeps us on tenterhooks, wondering how Michael will extricate himself from the gigantic mess he has gotten himself into. Although "The Informant" is fun, it is also pure fantasy. There is no human being on earth as perfect as Michael (he rarely makes mistakes), and it is a stretch that Elizabeth would risk her job and the well-being of her family to get the Butcher's Boy on her side. Fortunately, Perry keeps us from taking these far-fetched plot elements too seriously by focusing our attention on Michael's wild and perilous escapades.
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