Sleeping Dogs

With the police hot on his tail, an infamous hit man flees to the United States to exact revenge in this "exciting [and] suspenseful" (The Washington Post Book World) sequel to the Edgar Award winner The Butcher's Boy."A bravura performance."-Chicago TribuneHe came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons.
Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was 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. Ever since, there's been a price on his head. Now, after a decade, they've found him. The Butcher's Boy escapes back to the States with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him .