Butcher by Campbell Armstrong
Detective Lou Perlman has become an outcast from police HQ, doomed by a sadistic Chief-Superintendent to a seemingly infinite 'sick-list'. Deprived of doing battle with Glasgow's criminal underworld - which he needs the way a junkie needs a fix - he's barred from participating in the investigation of the bloodbath that has rocked the foundations of the city's lower depths. A new man has powered and blasted his way to the top of Glasgow's gangster fraternity, Reuben Chuck, a villain who promotes cruelty and murder even as he pursues an inscrutable religious awakening of his own. Only a gruesome discovery made in Perlman's own house invigorates him, and launches him into a simple inquiry that quickly becomes a ganglia of perplexities - the whereabouts of his missing love Miriam, body parts, a seemingly haunted house, dubious part-time surgeons, a mob of dangerous hooded teenagers, a ferret, and his own family's history - all leading, inexorably, strangely, to the deathly terrain of Reuben Chuck.
'Armstrong has outdone both Frederick Forsyth and Ken Follett'JAMES PATTERSON'Campbell Armstrong is thriller writing's best-kept secret'SUNDAY TIMES
Born in Glasgow and having lived in the US for twenty years, CAMPBELL ARMSTRONG now lives in Ireland with his wife. He began writing fiction in 1978; has since written over twenty novels - including the highly acclaimed Jig series - and is ranked as one of the world's leading international thriller writers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780749081942 |
| ISBN 10 | 0749081945 |
| Title | Butcher |
| Author | Campbell Armstrong |
| Series | Lou Perlman S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Allison & Busby |
| Year published | 2007-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 504 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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