Book description
The much-loved comic thriller by the author of the Edgar Awardâwinning The Butcherâs Boy is now, by popular demand, back in print, featuring a new Introduction by bestselling author Carl Hiaasen.
When Leroy âChineseâ Gordon breaks into a professorâs lab at the University of Los Angeles, heâs after some pharmaceuticalâŚ
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1 author picked Metzger's Dog as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I had the good fortune to meet Thomas Perry at a writers' conference a few years back. Perry is best known for fast-paced thrillers such as The Butcher's Boy, the Jane Whitefield series, and The Old Man.
On the topic of comic crime fiction, he observed that violent crime is serious business that's difficult to treat with levity. Perry tried it in his second novel. Published in 1983, Metzger's Dog follows Chinese Gordon and his gang as they romp through the southern California desertâblowing things up. Their target is a medical facility with a million dollars worth ofâŚ
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