Thomas Perry

"Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den-the States-to figure out why the mafia is after him-again-and how to stop them. Eddie's Boy jumps between Michael's current...

A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels’ latest hero could also make her its next victim.… Justine Poole takes her job seriously providing security for wealthy and high-profile Hollywood stars. When she prevents a brazen robbery at the Beverly Hills home of two of her clients―killing two of the five armed robbers in the process―she is initially lauded in the media as a local hero. But the spotlight soon puts...

When thirteen bodies are discovered inside a small Louisville restaurant, criminology professor and profiler Daniel Millikan calls in Roy Prescott, a former hitman himself, to track down the killer, James Varney, a disturbed murderer of consummate skill, and the two men embark on a coast-to-coast duel that only one of them will survive.

"Years ago the Butcher Boy was betrayed by the Mafia, exacted his revenge, and disappeared. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believed he ever existed. Now the professional killer 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, receives a late-night...

From the New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry, "who can be depended upon to deliver high-voltage shocks" (Stephen King), comes a new thriller about an unlikely burglar--a young woman in her 20s--who realizes she must solve a string of murders, or else become the next victim. Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief--with just the right combination of smarts, looks, and skills,...

"In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been...