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Mister Slaughter (Matthew Corbett Novels)

Mister Slaughter (Matthew Corbett Novels)

Current price: $19.99
Publication Date: July 19th, 2022
Publisher:
Lividian Publications
ISBN:
9781941971109
Pages:
366

Description

The world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful historical thriller by Robert McCammon.

New York City. 1702. Matthew Corbett, an apprentice problem solver for the London-based Herrald Agency, accepts an unusual and hazardous commission. Together with his colleague, Hudson Greathouse, he agrees to escort the notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter from an asylum outside Philadelphia to the docks of New York. Along the way, Slaughter makes his captors a surprising - and extremely tempting - offer.

Their response to this offer sets in motion a series of astonishing, ultimately catastrophic events.Mister Slaughter is at once a classic portrait of an archetypal serial killer and an exquisitely detailed account of a fledgling nation still in the process of inventing itself. Suspenseful, illuminating, never less than compulsively readable, it is, by any measure, an extraordinary achievement, the largest accomplishment to date from one of our most gifted - and necessary - writers.