Wednesday, February 01, 2012

The Informant by Thomas Perry to be Adapted for Film

The Informant by Thomas Perry

The third mystery in the "Butcher's Boy" series by Thomas Perry, The Informant, will be adapted for film by screenwriter Matt Wheeler for Sony. (The first book in the series, The Butcher's Boy, won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel.)

The Butcher's Boy is a professional killer betrayed by the Mafia, who 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 late-night 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.

In our review of The Informant, we called it an "exciting, fast-paced thriller," but added, "possibly the best way to experience this novel is to simply to sit back and enjoy the ride and not dwell too much on the details as they go racing by."

(Related article: Deadline.)

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