THE INFORMANT
Book ID/图书代码： 07900011B47268
English Summary/英文概要： In Thomas Perry’s Edgar-winning debut The Butcher’s Boy, 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 Butcher’s Boy finds his peaceful life threatened when a Mafia hit team finally catches up with him. He knows they won’t stop coming and decides to take the fight to their door. Soon Waring, now high up in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department, receives a surprise latenight visit from the Butcher’s 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 Butcher’s 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 informant—or to take him out of commission for good.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 托马斯·佩瑞（Thomas Perry）的爱伦坡奖作品首次亮相 - “屠夫之子.” 他是一位职业杀手，由于黑手党的背叛使得旗下分子死伤无数，从此他也销声匿迹。司法部官员伊丽莎白·沃琳（Elizabeth Waring ）却相信“屠夫之子”的存在。多年以后，“屠夫之子”发现自己又被黑手党盯上了，平静的生活也再度被打乱。他知道对方不可能会放过自己，所以打算和他们硬拼。
不久，有一天晚上，“屠夫之子”找上了司法部高职位的伊丽莎白，因为他知道她对自己的黑手党敌人一直有追踪，希望能借助她的力量找出陷害自己的幕后黑手，条件是他会帮她粉碎一宗谋杀悬案作为回报。于是，交易正式成立。他为了保证新生活步步逼近自己的对手；她却在和时间赛跑，要得说服他转做受保护的线名或永远带他远走高飞。(XJJ & CK)
Awards/获奖情况：榮獲2012年巴瑞獎（Barry Award）最佳驚悚小說（BEST THRILLER）入圍2012年漢密特獎（Hammett Prize）
“Now the Butcher’s Boy is back at full blast in ‘The Informant,’ a book-length war of nerves that accentuates the best of Mr. Perry’s gift for using pure logic and gamesmanship to generate breathless nonstop suspense..."
––The New York Times, Janet Maslin
"Perry’s immaculate style — clean, polished, uncluttered by messy emotions — suits the Butcher’s Boy, who executes his kills with the same cool, dispassionate skill. But this time there’s something almost human about his awareness of the limitations imposed by his aging body. Luckily, one of the lessons he learned from Eddie is that ‘killing was mostly a mental business. It required thinking clearly, not quickly.’ And his mind is still sharp enough to devise the kind of ingenious logistical traps a young computer gamer could only dream of."
––The New York Times, Marilyn Stasio
About the Author/作者介绍： 托马斯·佩瑞在1947年出身于托纳旺达，纽约。1969年，他从康奈尔大学得到了学士，1974年由罗切斯特大学深究得到了英文系的博士学位。他曾担任过公园的管理员，厂工，职业渔夫，大学行政人员与教师，还有黄金时段电视节目的编稿者及制作人。今日他定居在美国南加州。
Thomas Perry was born in Tonawanda, New York in 1947. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1969 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester in 1974. He has worked as a park maintenance man, factory laborer, commercial fisherman, university administrator and teacher, and a writer and producer of prime time network television shows. He lives in Southern California.
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