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  • Published: 18 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780099591061
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $27.99

The Slaughter Man

(DC Max Wolfe)




A murdered family. A dying serial killer. A missing child. DC Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless killer through the streets of London. By the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of The Murder Bag.

'This is brilliant stuff!' Peter James

A murdered family. A dying serial killer. A missing child. DC Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless killer through the streets of London. By the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of The Murder Bag.

On New Year's Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away.

The murder weapon - a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered - leads Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard's Black Museum devoted to a killer who thirty years ago was known as the Slaughter Man.

But the Slaughter Man has done his time, and is now old and dying. Can he really be back in the game?

And was the murder of a happy family a mindless killing spree, a grotesque homage by a copycat killer - or a contract hit designed to frame a dying man?

All Max knows is that he needs to find the missing child and stop the killer before he destroys another innocent family - or finds his way to his own front door ...

Even the happiest of families have black, twisted secrets that someone is ready to kill for...

  • Published: 18 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780099591061
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $27.99

About the author

Tony Parsons

Tony Parsons left school at sixteen and his first job in journalism was at the New Musical Express. His first journalism after leaving the NME was when he was embedded with the Vice Squad at 27 Savile Row, West End Central. The roots of the DC Max Wolfe series started here.

Since then he has become an award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist whose books have been translated into more than forty languages. The Murder Bag, the first novel in the DC Max Wolfe series, went to number one on first publication in the UK. All of the DC Max Wolfe novels have been Sunday Times top five bestsellers.

Tony lives in London with his wife, his daughter and their dog, Stan.

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Praise for The Slaughter Man

Told with striking clarity and insight, this novel confirms Parsons has earned a place at the very pinnacle of British crime writing

Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail

The second entertaining instalment in the Max Wolfe series... the colourful plot races through the pages and spreads its tentacles into the dark reaches of abuse

Times

This blood thumping, heart pumping thriller confirms Tony Parsons has become one of our best crime writers. Brilliant! 10 stars

Peterborough Evening Telegraph

With its big ideas and adroit plotting, The Slaughter Man's position in the marketplace of fiction seems justly assured

Olivia Cole, GQ

Parsons had me gripped from the first chapter to the last sentence

Irish Independent

Fast paced and gripping

The Scotsman

Superbly crafted crime drama that grips from start to finish

The Sunday Post

Parsons’ novel has startling emotional power, the result of brooding poetry gliding across a propulsive narrative … A remarkable novel on multiple levels

Booklist

A taut always engaging thriller

the SUN

It’s all as addictive as your favourite boxset…it contains more twists than a contortionist caught in a tornado

Shortlist

I've long been a fan of Tony Parsons's writing, and his sharp eye for detail, and I'm really enjoying his genre move into crime fiction. This is brilliant stuff!

Peter James

I put my life on hold while I was reading because I couldn't tear myself away from the gripping story... It's complicated, brutal but Tony Parsons has managed to weave the brutality into a truly brilliant story.

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