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Biographical note
Tony Parsons is a bestselling novelist and an award-winning journalist. His books have been published in over forty languages and his multi-million selling novel Man and Boy won The Book of The Year prize in 2000. Most recently, he created the Max Wolfe crime series. Tony lives in London with his family.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, <i>The Slaughter Man</i>'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
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
'The colourful plot races through the pages' Times
'A remarkable novel on multiple levels' Booklist
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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...
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Readers can't get enough of The Slaughter Man . . .
***** 'WOW !!!'
***** 'It's just an altogether enjoyable read. I can't wait to go back and read the rest of the series.'
***** 'If you enjoy intelligent, well written crime fiction, then add Max Wolfe to your reading list'
***** 'An excellent and thrilling read.'
***** 'Absolutely brilliant! This was something different altogether..........WOW!'